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Physically seen, temperature is a measure of the average energy per molecule chaotic movement, plus the movement of atoms in molecules.

Now atoms exist of quarks and gluons and they can move pretty fast. But are they also of influence of the temperature of something?

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Gluons hold together quarks so strongly in baryons that, although quarks and gluons can vibrate in 3D space and time, individual quark and gluon vibrations do not contribute to the thermodynamic temperature of matter.

Instead, quarks and gluons add their momentum to atoms and molecules whose vibrations are measured as temperature. Their mass becomes an input to the formula for thermodynamic temperature, which is the average kinetic energy of all the molecules and atoms in an object or a gas.

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