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Heat

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Heat is the transfer of thermal energy that flows between two bodies placed at different temperatures.

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A warm hand cupped around a snowball transfers heat into the ice until the snowball melts and the hand cools.

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Heat names a transfer already in progress, never a fixed quantity a body "contains" once it reaches thermal equilibrium.