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internal energy

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The sum of kinetic, potential, chemical, electrical, nuclear, and other energy associated with the atoms and molecules of a system. An increase in internal energy results in a rise in temperature or a change in phase.

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  • noun physics a property, characteristic of the state of a thermodynamic system, the change of which is equal to the heat absorbed minus the work done by the system

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