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Are heat and sunlight synonyms

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

If your soup is not warming fast enough, would you say "I have to turn up the sunlight on that burner"? Would you say that heat is responsible for the processes in plants that are controlled by chlorophyll? Would you say that your pipes would freeze if your home sunlight system is out of order, or that heat is the visible part of the EMR spectrum? There is some overlap in meanings, but the words do not mean the same thing, and it's hard to find a context in when they do.

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