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Descriptor English: Thermal Energy
Descriptor Spanish: Energía Térmica
Descriptor energía térmica
Descriptor Portuguese: Energia Térmica
Descriptor French: Énergie Thermique
Tree number(s): SP4.606.713.521.428
Scope note: Form of energy directly associated with the absolute temperature of a system, and classically corresponds to the sum of the microscopic kinetic energies that its constituent particles have due to their translation, vibration or rotation movements.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Related: Energy-Generating Resources MeSH
Power Plants MeSH
Thermal Contamination DeCS
DeCS ID: 32438
Unique ID: DDCS032438
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Thermal Energy - Preferred
Concept UI FD00060383
Scope note Form of energy directly associated with the absolute temperature of a system, and classically corresponds to the sum of the microscopic kinetic energies that its constituent particles have due to their translation, vibration or rotation movements.
Preferred term Thermal Energy



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