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If it is a gas stove it will use kinetic energy from a chemical reaction, adding it as potential energy (molecular motion) to the molecules of whatever is heated. In an electric stove, electrical energy becomes radiant thermal energy, some of which becomes potential energy in whatever is heated.

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