When a room temperature thermometer is placed in a beaker of boiling water, heat is transferred from the hot water to the glass of the thermometer and then to the liquid mercury inside the thermometer. With reference to the motion of the particles in the water, glass, and mercury, describe the changes that are taking place during this heat transfer. What changes in total energy and average internal kinetic energy are happening for each substance? Why do you think the mercury moves up the thermometer.

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Temperature is the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object especially as expres... View the full answer