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What is heat made out of?

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Heat on a microscopic scale is the average kinetic energy of whatever particles are involved; these particles could be atoms, could be molecules, or could be sub-atomic. The kinetic energy in question could be in the form of vibration or could be linear motion. Any kind of motion relates to heat. Fast moving particles are hot, slow moving particles are cold.

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Simply put, heat is made out of energy, which is the stuff that makes molecules and atoms move. Heat is defined as the amount of energy that is transferred between two systems.

If it will help you conceptually, imagine heat as some sort of fluid flowing through matter. Heat will always flow from areas of high concentration to low concentration (much like fluids), the amount of which cannot be created or destroyed unless through nuclear reactions (like fluids, but chemical reactions) and while it is theoretically possible to have a space where there is no heat whatsoever, it is very hard to obtain such a state.

There are also different types of heat: Work and Thermal. Work is pretty much heat on a macroscopic scale like mixing things and changing the pressure. And thermal heat is the temperature of the thing where the heat can be observed (well, you can't really see it happening unless you had a giant SEM) in a sub-microscopic scale in the vibrations of molecules.

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it is when the motion of atoms and molecules creates a form of energy called heat where the molecules and atoms are moving VERY fast bouncing off each other producing heat.

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Heat is made of a series of gases that form up and get very hot

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