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I know that temperature is used to measure the average internal kinetic energy of an object, but how do we go about measuring thermal energy? It seems as though temperature could only compare the thermal energy of objects with the same mass and volume. But for objects with different mass and volume, this would not be the case. For example, a lake has a higher thermal energy than a roasting marshmallow, while the marshmallow as a higher temperature.