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A cold metal spoon is placed in a bowl of hot soup. The soup is left on a table where it cools to room temperature. Which of the following statements is true?

A.The soup transfers heat to the air, while the metal spoon remains at room temperature.

B.The air cools the soup.

C.The soup transfers heat to the metal spoon and to the air.

User Rood
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Answer: Heat always moves from hot to cold. The spoon will increase in thermal energy, and the soup will decrease in thermal energy.

Explanation: cause grass

User Zoran Pandovski
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Answer: Thermal energy will be transfer from the soup to the spoon :)

Explanation: The soup will heat the spoon, and the soup will decrease in thermal energy.

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