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color temperature comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
temperature	quantity	A measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles of a system.
color temperature	temperature	A stellar temperature determined by comparison of the spectral distribution of the star's radiation with that of a blackbody.

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