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What happens when heat is taken away from particles?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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13y ago

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Basically it cools. If you take away enough heat it will change its physical state, from gas to liquid to solid. That is gaseous steam to liquid water to solid ice.

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15y ago

When heat is taken away from an object or liquid it becomes colder itself yet the environment surounding the source of heat will become hotter. For instance, in the case of water, when heat is removed it becomes ice. Or when heat is removed from steam it becomes water. When heat is taken away from an object or liquid it becomes colder itself yet the environment surounding the source of heat will become hotter. For instance, in the case of water, when heat is removed it becomes ice. Or when heat is removed from steam it becomes water.

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14y ago

If heat is taken away from matter, then the matter will become more solid and thereby move more slowly at an atomic level, until it reaches 0 Kelvin (absolute zero), at which point all motion stops. Remember that heat is energy and energy is the amount of motion in an atom. At absolute zero all motion stops and it is cold. Really, really, REALLY cold.

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13y ago

Heat is basically the sum of the energy generated by the movements of particles in a material. The temperature you feel in the air is caused by atoms of nitrogen and oxygen crashing into you, transferring their kinetic energy to you, making you feel "warmer."

So, basically when heat is taken away from particles, its just these particles slowing down, transferring their energy to something else.

That's the answer to your question, but I'd just like to add that in order for something to lose heat, something else must gain that energy. This energy gain isn't always in the form of heat, however. In endothermic reactions in chemistry, for example, heat is taken away from the environment and this energy is used in the reaction to move the electrons of the reactants into a higher energy level.

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3y ago

it becomes a solid

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3y ago

the water staysthere

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