How to Use absolute zero in a Sentence

absolute zero

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• William Thomson, also known as Lord Kelvin, is best known for establishing the value of absolute zero.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2024
• Then the team cooled the tardigrades down even further, to just above absolute zero.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2021
• To do so, physicists use lasers to cool atoms to just a trillionth of a degree above absolute zero.
  — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2020
• The atoms have to be cold—just above absolute zero—because heat rises.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
• Researchers just found a new way to get an object to absolute zero.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
• Researchers have used lasers to get things down to millionths of a degree above absolute zero.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2016
• People might have learned at some point in school that at absolute zero, all motion stops.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• In the authors' setup, the controller is a cloud of rubidium atoms cooled to near absolute zero and held in a trap.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022
• The photons have cooled to just a few degrees above absolute zero, and their wavelengths have stretched into the microwave part of the spectrum.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• Other quantum labs freeze their stay-at-home photons to near-absolute zero as a way of tapping the brakes.
  — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2020
• As the universe expanded, photons in the CMB stretched to longer wavelengths and cooled to a few degrees above absolute zero in the modern day.
  — Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 10 Oct. 2017
• On the flip side, absolute zero — cold so cold there’s nowhere to go but up — is almost within scientists’ grasp.
  — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2019
• Despite the fiery appearance of the Flame Nebula, the clouds are very cold and only reach a few tens of degrees above absolute zero.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
• Each of these tiny blobs consists of 8,000 rubidium atoms that Steinhauer has cooled to near absolute zero and then swished around with a laser.
  — Wired, 8 Nov. 2019
• Instead it is warmed to nearly three kelvins (just above absolute zero) by weak microwaves.
  — Martin Rees, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• As space expands, that energy will cool to absolute zero, bringing on the heat death of our universe.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2022
• The telescope faces engineering challenges, such as the need to keep it just a few degrees above absolute zero.
  — Leah Brennan, baltimoresun.com, 24 July 2019
• The researchers connected the chips with an optical fiber and cooled the whole setup close to absolute zero to damp out vibrations.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 25 Apr. 2018
• In the distant future, the universe will approach absolute zero at the end of everything (see below).
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2022
• The temperature there is a frigid -400 degrees Fahrenheit—colder than the surface of Pluto, and just a tad warmer than absolute zero.
  — Katrina Miller, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
• That’s long enough for them to be cooled to record-low temperatures—perhaps as little as 20 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero.
  — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 9 May 2018
• Researchers have tried for decades to reach absolute zero, which is thought to be impossible to ever attain.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
• All the optics had to be made on the ground at room temperature but were deployed in space and operated at 30 to 55 degrees above absolute zero.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2022
• Just a few feet away, on the other hand, the windings of the superconducting electromagnets need to be cooled to a few degrees above absolute zero.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• The small piece of quartz, one-thousandth of the width of a human hair, will be suspended by an electric field and trapped in a cold, confined space, where its atomic vibrations will slow to near absolute zero.
  — Ramin Skibba, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
• The expansion of space will cool that energy nearly to 0 kelvin, or absolute zero, signaling the heat death of the universe and total entropy.
  — Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2020
• But to detect those faint emanations of heat, the telescope must be very cold — less than 45 degrees Celsius above absolute zero — so that its own heat does not wash out the heat from outer space.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
• The scanner is big because the sensors that measure the brain’s magnetic field need to be kept at close to absolute zero, or negative 269 degrees Celsius.
  — Megan Thielking, STAT, 21 Mar. 2018
• Cornell and Wieman were trying to cool a puff of rubidium gas to within a few billionths of a degree of absolute zero—colder than any place in nature, even the 2.73 kelvins of space.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 7 Sep. 2017
• Any matter above the temperature of absolute zero (about -273 Celsius) will emit light.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024