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Can anyone answers these science questions for me?
1. Josh heats two identical iron nails togetheruntil they are red hot. He drops one into 50 mL (50 g) of water and the other into 60 mL (50 g) of olive oil. If both liquidsare at the same temperature to start with,predict which will be hotter one minute after the nails are dropped in? Explain your answer
2. Explain why heat energy can be considered a form of kinetic energy.
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Assuming the masses reach thermal equilibrium in one minute.   Olive oil has almost exactly one half the heat capacity of water.  The more heat capacity a mass has the more heat it takes to raise it's temperature.   The olive oil will get hotter than the water.  The climb in temperature of the olive oil will be twice that of the water.

Heat is molecules moving fast in their tiny spring cages.  That's kinetic energy.

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