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Molecules in the combustion chamber of a rocket engine are in a high state of random motion. When the molecules are expelled through a nozzle in a more ordered state, will their temperature be higher than, lower than, or the same as their initial temperature in the chamber before being exhausted?

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Answer:

The temperature of molecules exhausted through the nozzle

is lower than the temperature in the chamber before being exhausted.

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