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Is air or heat matter

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Air is matter, because it is composed of atoms like oxygen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen, which, although invisible, have mass and are matter. Heat, on the other hand, is not matter. When you feel "heat," it is merely energy transferring from a hot object to yourself, and the energy itself is not matter.

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