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Why does ocean have more thermal energy than a pond when they have the same temperature?
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∙ 8y ago
Anything that is warmer than absolute zero (which is minus 273 degrees Celsius) has some thermal energy. The molecules are moving around, vibrating in some way, they are not motionless. The difference in temperature between a cool lake, which might have a temperature of 10oC and a warm lake at possibly 25oC is much less than you might think. You only get the real difference if you translate the temperature into degrees Kelvin. Thus, the cool lake is at 283 kelvins and the warm lake is at 298 kelvins. They are very nearly the same temperature. Naturally, the larger lake has a greater amount of heat energy. A larger lake can have easily ten thousand times as much water as a small pond. So even if the small pond were twice as hot as the large lake, the large lake would still have (in this specific case) five thousand times as much heat energy. What if the small pond were a thousand times hotter than the large lake? That's not really possible because the small pond would vaporize long before it got to that ridiculously high temperature.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 8y agoThe amount of water is different.
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