Temperature, what is it? Is it heat? Or is it Cold? Well, it's both of them. From childhood, we learned that temperature is the degree of hotness or coldness of an object. This definition is still true. Well kind of. For a fact, the temperature isn't just a degree. It is actually the average energy of all the particles in a system and it's also related to the distribution of those energies in the system. You see, a change in temperature is basically a consequence of heat exchange. This results in a rise or fall in a body's hotness or coldness. So what does it mean when the temperature is said to be absolute? Absolute - Maximum If you're thinking it means 0 degrees Kelvin, you are slightly incorrect. That is just a point on the temperature scale. What it actually means is a point where we can go no further. This applies in both directions. So we have what is called Absolute Cold ( better known as absolute zero) and Absolute Hot....
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