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The term temperature (a construct) is a used to measure heat energy, to compare "hot" and "cold" things. A rock in the desert sun is hot. A fire is hotter. What's the difference? We devised a "scale" and developed instruments to measure "amounts of heat" to give us what we currently use as temperature. "The high today is going to be in the 80's." "Lead melts at a little under 330 degrees." The former is degrees F and the latter is degrees C. We need scales to talk about temperature. Use the link and begin your journey into how we look at heat (and non-heat, which is cold).

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