table 43 Some temperaturę values.
Observation |
Temperaturę |
Lowest, but unattainable, temperaturę |
0 K = -273.15°C |
In the context of lasers, it sometimes makes (almost) sense to talk about negative temperaturę. | |
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40 zK |
Sodium gas in certain laboratory experiments - coldest mat-ter system achieved by man and possibly in the universe |
0.45 nK |
Temperaturę of neutrino background in the universe |
c. 2 K |
Temperaturę of photon gas background (or background radi-ation) in the universe |
2.7 K |
Liquid helium |
4.2 K |
Oxygen triple point |
54.3584 K |
Liquid nitrogen |
77 K |
Coldest weather ever measured (Antarctic) |
185 K = -88°C |
Freezing point of water at standard pressure |
273.15 K = 0.00°C |
Triple point of water |
273.16 K = 0.01°C |
Average temperaturę of the Earths surface |
287.2 K |
Smallest uncomfortable skin temperaturę |
316 K (10 K above normal) |
Interior of human body |
310.0 ± 0.5 K = 36.8 ± 0.5°C |
Hottest weather ever measured |
343.8 K = 70.7°C |
Boiling point of water at standard pressure |
373.13 Kor 99.975°C |
Large wood fire |
c. 1100 K |
Liquid bronze |
c. 1100 K |
Freezing point of gold |
1337.33 K |
Liquid, pure iron |
1810 K |
Bunsen burner flame |
up to 1870 K |
Light bulb filament |
2.9 kK |
Earths centre |
4kK |
Melting point of hafnium Carbide |
4.16 kK |
Suns surface |
5.8 kK |
Air in lightning bolt |
30 kK |
Hottest stars surface (centre of NGC 2240) |
250 kK |
Space between Earth and Moon (no typo) |
up to 1 MK |
Centre of white dwarf |
5 to 20 MK |
Suns centre |
20 MK |
Centre of the accretion disk in X-ray binary stars |
10 to 100 MK |
Inside the JET fusion tokamak |
100 MK |
Centre of hottest stars |
1 GK |
Maximum temperaturę of Systems without electron-positron pair generation |
ca. 6 GK |
Universe when it was 1 s old |
100 GK |
Hagedorn temperaturę |
1.9 TK |
Heavy ion collisions - highest man-made value |
up to 3.6 TK |
Planck temperaturę - naturę s upper temperaturę limit |
1032 K |