What is kinetic energy and how is kinetic energy related to the temperature of a substance?

Kinetic energy is a property of a moving object or particle and depends not only on its motion but also on its mass. The temperature of gases is proportional to the average translational kinetic energy of atoms and molecules. The motion of individual molecules in a gas is random in magnitude and direction.

the potatoes have high sugar concentrations and although these potatoes were different we could seethe effects that their sugar concentrations had in different environments. for example, the potatoes in sample a, were placed in pure water. this created a hypertonic environment and caused the potatoes to draw in water from its surroundings. we saw the opposite happen with the potatoes in sample b when placed in the sodium chloride solution. the potatoes in this case were in a hypotonic solution and therefore lost water to their surroundings.