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How Temperature Affects Heat Energy Transfer

By Janice VanCleave

Colder vs. Hotter

When heat energy is transferred from one substance to another, the heat energy moves from the hotter substance to the colder substance. Temperature is a measure of how hot or cold a substance is. The higher the temperature of an object, the hotter is the object. A thermometer is an instrument that measure how hot […]

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