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Environment and Public Health > Environment > Environment, Controlled > Temperature
Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Environment, Controlled > Temperature
Physical Phenomena > Thermodynamics > Temperature
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Meteorological Concepts > Atmosphere > Weather > Temperature
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Meteorological Concepts > Atmosphere > Weather > Temperature

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Temperature  

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  • prefer specifics HOT TEMPERATURE or COLD TEMPERATURE

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  • The property of objects that determines the direction of heat flow when they are placed in direct thermal contact. The temperature is the energy of microscopic motions (vibrational and translational) of the particles of atoms.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013696

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