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To: MacDorcha
Temperature is a measurment of the energy released in a given field.

No. Temperature is not an energy anymore than a kilogram weighs an hour. Your mistakes in posting elementary thermodynamics do not increase your credibility in other areas. VI = ON

850 posted on 07/08/2004 9:44:04 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic

i never once said temperature IS energy. i said it MEASURES energy. ask almost any chemistry teacher, they will tell you, "energy" is a more prefered way than saying "heat" because it is more correct.

what we percieve as "heat" is relative to the amount of energy released. the more energy, the more heat. heat is, however, energy, and with that energy, we can use it not only for heat properties, but for light, arcing, and of course, nuclear reactions as well.

the faster the molcules move (energy) the more enegry is produces. plasma is a super-excited gas. all plasma releases light, but this is not shown if you simply call it "heat"

moreso, the mercury in barometers isn't showing "heat" it is showing how much it expands in a vacuum when energy transfers to it.

a closer and more correct (yet wrong in conclusion) way to say it would have been "grams doesn't measure moles"

if you know what it is you are measuring, yes it does.


864 posted on 07/09/2004 6:50:05 AM PDT by MacDorcha
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