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Why does temperature make energy?
Question Date: 2018-11-27
Answer 1:

Temperature doesn't make energy, but rather temperature is a measure of how much energy something has.

The reason we describe things with a certain temperature is that it gives us an average measurement of energy for the billions and billions of molecules that make up an object. As those molecules become more excited from having more energy (they might get their energy from something else that had more energy); a thermometer will increase its temperature reading.



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