How does cold transfer if it’s just the absence of heat?
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Heat transfers when particles that are moving/vibrating fast collide with slower moving/vibrating particles, which have lower temperature. This results in the faster particles slowing down and the slower particles speeding up until a balance is restored and the temperature evens out. So the particles transferring their kinetic energy is basically them transferring heat.A microwave uses this while heating our food, the microwaves vibrate the water molecules, speeding them up, thus heating our food.
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