How do thermoses keep coffee hot?
Chemistry For Your Life
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What's Happening in Vacuum Flasks?
The temperature of the counter and the air around it and fight that kinetic energy. Kinetic energy can connect to connect is like the best I can think of. The molecules in their movement inside the coffee cup through the ceramic cup. So my thought is when you just like a vacuum layer, that it somehow is a really good barrier to keep those molecules from affecting each other. It's to me just doesn't seem like a stretch to think like, okay, table molecules to cup molecules to coffee molecules. Seems like not a stretch. Right.
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