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Chemistry11: Heat, Temperature and Energy: Home

Introduction

Did you ever put a metal spoon in hot soup or hot chocolate and then touch the spoon to your mouth? What do you think might be happening, between the molecules in the soup and the atoms in the spoon, to make the spoon get hot?