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Temperature

"Temperature" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The property of objects that determines the direction of heat flow when they are placed in direct thermal contact. The temperature is the energy of microscopic motions (vibrational and translational) of the particles of atoms.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Temperature" by people in this website by year, and whether "Temperature" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 261 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 18 publications in 2010
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