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How is temperature a measure of the average speed of the molecules of a thing? Defend your answer

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Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of all the molecules in a gas. As the temperature and, therefore, kinetic energy, of a gas changes, the RMS speed of the gas molecules also changes.

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