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Temperature of a substance is proportional to the average kinetic energy of the motion of the molecules of that substance.

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True, according to the Kinetic Molecular Theory.
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According to kinetic molecular theory, average kinetic energy per molecule of a gas is directly proportional to the temperature. The average kinetic energy is given as

KE = 1.5 k T

where T = temperature , k = Boltzmann constant

hence

temperature is proportional to the average kinetic energy

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