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If the temperature of a gas increases, this means the average kinetic energy of the particles has increased.

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Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles (specifically their thermal, mostly translational, motion). For an ideal gas, the average translational kinetic energy per particle is directly proportional to the temperature (KE_avg = (3/2)kT).