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Lab Produces 3.6 Billion Degree Gas

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hotter-than-the-sun dept.

starexplorer2001 writes "LiveScience is reporting how scientists at Sandia's Z laboratory have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit (2 billion kelvins). That's hotter than the interior of our sun, which is only 15 million degrees F. And they don't know how they did it. Do we want anything that hot on our planet?"

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  1. Re:How did they measure it ? by technoextreme · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Good question. There are devices that can actually measure the temperature. I have no freaking clue myself but one such device is this found in BNL. http://www.bnl.gov/RHIC/PHOBOS.htm Supposedly, it's a trillian degrees kelvin. Im sure the answer is somewhere in there.

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  2. Re:Summary is wrong yet again by Kasracer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Bah! The error in the summary is much larger than my error.

  3. Re:Summary is wrong yet again by siwelwerd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    15 million kelvins. Degrees Kelvin is not a unit.

  4. Not as hot as a P4! by tbcpp · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Who writes this stuff anyway? Everyone knows that the P4 has the highest temp record.

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  5. Re:Summary is wrong yet again by deadgoon42 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's 15 million Kelvins. Kelvins are the units here, not degrees. If you're going to be a science nazi, do it right.

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