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Lasers are usually associated with heat. But scientists have instead used them to reach the coldest temperature ever recorded. Could they reach absolute zero?Key facts
- Absolute zero is 0°K or -273.15°C.
- Lasers have been used by scientists in an attempt to reach absolute zero.
- Photons from a laser cool materials by reducing the speed of atoms.
- Physicists today are still striving to reach the limits of cold temperatures.
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Lasers are associated with tremendous heat, but some physicists have been using them to reach the coldest temperatures ever recorded on Earth – absolute zero.
Absolute zero = 0 K or -273.15°C
The temperature at which atoms within substances cease to move.
Experiments in the 1900s, using liquefied gases, hydrogen and helium, brought ...
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