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A plate of warm food is put into a cold refrigerator. What direction is thermal energy being transferred?.

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Heat is always the transfer of energy from an object at a higher temperature to an object at a lower temperature. So energy flows from the particles in the warmer bowl to the particles in the cold ice and, later, the cooler water.
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