![]() Which that is partially true, but temperature is a measure of the average thermal energy of all molecules in a system. Probably the part that confuses people with a question like this is that a pot of boiling water is hotter than an iceberg and we associated high temperature with thermal energy. All pieces of matter, even very cold ones, have at least some thermal energy because they are in motion at the atomic scale and this is motion is thermal energy. If we compare an iceberg to a pot of boiling water, each of the molecules of both objects have their own amount of thermal energy. Thermal energy is the thing that object possess, but heat is a process that occurs between objects. Heat itself is the transfer of thermal energy from one object to another. Thermal energy, the energy associated with an object’s temperature, is what people usually mean when they say heat. ![]() ![]() Heat isn’t something that objects possess. ![]()
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