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In this task, you are given a question and answer for that. The answer will fill in the blank or will complete the unfinished question. Your task is to provide an explanation based on the given question or fill-in-the-blank statement, and answer.
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Question: When quarks are taken further apart, they experience minimal attraction, but when they're brought together, they have an attraction that is 
 Answer: smaller
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Gluons make quarks attract each other more strongly the farther apart the quarks get.


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Question: John was watching the particle accelerator and notating the reactions of the atoms. He observed that an object with less mass has a thermal energy that is 
 Answer: Less
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Therefore, an object with more mass has greater thermal energy than an object with less mass, even if their individual atoms are moving at the same speed.


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Question: When Dave screams outside he notices that the sound travels at different speeds in different temperatures. The sound travels slower when it is 
 Answer: cold.
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For a given medium, sound has a slower speed at lower temperatures.