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Plsss help!! What would happen to a cup of hot coffee left untouched for 10 minutes. Include in your response temperature, molecules, and kinetic energy.

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the temperature would become cooler

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The overall temperature of the coffee would decrease because the coffee would transfer its thermal energy into the surrounding air. The molecules would slow down in movement because when the coffee was hot, they were moving around faster. Subsequently, the kinetic energy of those molecules would also decrease

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