Caption: The ideal-gas Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution for velocity for 10**6 oxygen O_2 molecules for temperatures Celsius temperatures -100 C (red curve), 20 C (green curve), 600 C (blue curve): i.e., Kelvin temperatures 173.15 K, 293.15 K, 873.15 K. The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution is a result in statistical mechanics.
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Velocity is the conventional substitute for kinetic energy in the context of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.
An integral of the curves over all velocity gives the total number of molecules n = 10**6.
In general for distributions of microscopic particles, increasing temperature shifts the distribution of microscopic particles to higher energy levels. The formula for the distribution depends on the physical system.
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