Heat

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title: Heat
text: In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference. In colloquial use, heat sometimes refers to thermal energy itself. Thermal energy is the kinetic energy of vibrating and colliding atoms in a substance. An example of formal vs. informal usage may be obtained from the right-hand photo, in which the metal bar is "conducting heat" from its hot end to its cold end, but if the metal bar is considered a thermodynamic system, then the energy flow
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description: Type of energy transfer
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat
date created: 2001-08-08T22:48:59Z
date modified: 2024-09-04T15:13:13Z
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