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Why are heat and temperature not always the same?

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Heat is a form of energy, temperature is a point on an arbitary scale. A hot day is not the same temperature as a hot drink and that is not the same temperature as a hot oven. The temperatures 20C, 68F, 293K and 528Ra are all the same temperature on different scales.

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