Word: kelvinator
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...nadir of cold. Absolute zero is the point at which all random motions of material particles, due to heat energy, are completely stilled. It is calculated at 273.13° below zero on the centigrade scale, and it can be written as simply 0°K., meaning zero on the Kelvin or absolute scale. Scientists have never quite chilled matter to that point, and never expect to. But their approaches to it have shown them a great deal about how the laws of thermodynamics operate...