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If a pot of boiling water is dumped into a tub of cold water, how does the hot water heat the cold water?

A) Cold flows from the hot water to the cold water.
B) Heat flows from the hot water to the cold water.
C) Cold flows from the cold water to the hot water.
D) Heat flows from the cold water to the warm water.

User Tom Barron
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B. Heat flows from the hot water to the cold water.

User Ilya Tsuryev
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b. heat always flows to the colder object to try to achieve equilibrium.
User Dan Murfitt
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