In the poem "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats there is the following concluding line: "and bending down beside the glowing bars, murmur, a little sadly, how love fled and paced upon the mountains overhead and hid his face amid a crowd of stars." The glowing bars refer the metal bars that hold wood in a fireplace and they are transmitting heat energy by
A) radiation only
B) radiation and conduction.
C) conduction only
D) convection

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The glowing bars in a fireplace transmit heat through both radiation (emitting heat energy in the form of electromagnetic waves that can be felt without direct contact) and conduction (direct transfer of heat through a material or to another object in contact with it).

In the Poem "When You Are Old" by William Butler