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Heat conduction occurs when kinetic and molecular energy pass from one molecule to another. Metals are good heat conductors because of electrons that transport energy through the material.

In everyday life, there are three states of matter - solids, liquids and gases. The differences between the three states are due to the arrangement and spacing of the particles and their motion.

The revolution initiated early in the present century by the quantum theory has been so drastic, and has been followed up by a vast field of workers eager to explore the multiplicity of paths ...

One can see that the ultimate scope of the descendent of the kinetic theory of gases must be the whole field of the properties of matter in bulk, derived from the atomic constitution of matter and ...