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| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Grey represents the metal bar at a cold [[temperature]]. The yellow represents the highest [[temperature]] and red represents a [[temperature]] between yellow and grey.
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: Of the three [[State of Matter|states of matter]], [[solid]]s are the best '''conductors''' of [[Thermal Energy Store|thermal energy]].
: [[Metal]]s are better '''[[Thermal Conductor|thermal conductors]]''' than [[Non-metal|non-metals]] because [[metal]]s have [[delocalised electron|free electrons]] that can pass along [[Thermal Energy|thermal energy]].