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What does heat energy mean?

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Noun
  1. Also accurately called thermal energy; or simply "heat".
  2. A form of energy transfer among particles in a substance by means of kinetic energy.
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One Btu is the amount of heat energy given off by a typical birthday candle.
A heat pump in a forced-air EES uses a heat exchanger to take the heat energy from the refrigerant to heat the air that is blown over it.
Before wet wood can burn, heat energy must first supply enough energy to vaporize the water.
Heat death will occur when all the energy of the cosmos has been degraded to random heat energy, with random motions of molecules and uniform low-level temperatures.
Carrying the heat energy away, the warmer refrigerant vapour is sucked back into the compressor and the cycle begins again.
This is the amount of heat energy necessary to change the phase or state of matter from liquid to gas.

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