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Heat Transfer
When describing energy or temperature, we need a way to reference how much energy or how much temperature. Saying that it is a temperature of 20 outside does not tell us any information, just like saying a light bulb has an energy of 60. Sixty what? Fahrenheit is a unit of temperature. Other temperature units are degrees Celsius, Kelvin, and Rankine. Units that measure the same thing, such as temperature, can be converted from one to the other. See units. See conversions. Heat transfer can occur three ways.
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