How to Use kelvin in a Sentence

kelvin

noun

• At night, the surface of even the closest planet to the sun, Mercury, drops to about 95 kelvin.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2022
• Four out of the seven base units within the SI will be changed in total, including the ampre, the kelvin, and the mole.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2019
• So on the kelvin scale, the processor is 180 times colder than the temperature of space.
  — Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
• Along with the kilogram, the ampere (the unit of electric current), kelvin (temperature) and mole (amount of a substance) will get new definitions.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2018
• To do it, the researchers trapped deuterium ions in a cage of electric fields, flushed them with hydrogen gas and cooled everything down to an extremely chilly 15 kelvins.
  — Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2023
• 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
• But Spitzer used passive methods—reflective materials and radiators to shed heat into space—to cool most of the spacecraft to 40 kelvins.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
• Inside the sun, where nuclear fusion occurs, temperatures can swell to 15 million kelvin.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2022
• The second challenge was to ensure the detectors worked properly by achieving a temperature of 7 kelvin (266º C below freezing).
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022
• Aspelmeyer’s group says that the spread in their particle’s position is only 1.3 times that of the zero-point motion, equivalent to a temperature of just a few millionths of a kelvin above absolute zero.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
• The review concerns a potential redefinition of the ampere (a unit of electricity), the kelvin (temperature), the mole (measurement of atoms and or molecules) and the kilogram.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2017
• Lightforce takes special care to ensure its driving lights operate at 5,000 kelvin, which should be considered an ideal color temperature.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 18 Aug. 2020
• Color temperature addresses a unit of measurement called degrees kelvin.
  — Popular Science, 15 Apr. 2020
• Pluto’s surface temperature reaches about 40 degrees kelvin.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2019
• For one thing, the material seems to act suspiciously like a cuprate, a type of exotic ceramic in which superconductivity can occur at temperatures up to about 140 kelvin, or halfway between absolute zero and room temperature.
  — David H. Freedman, WIRED, 5 May 2019

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024