Orders of magnitude (temperature)
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Decade of temperature in kelvins | Examples |
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0 K | Absolute zero |
250 pK | Lowest temperature ever achieved in the laboratory |
1 nK | |
1 μK | |
1 mK | |
1 K | 4.22K Boiling point of helium |
10 K | 68 K Mean temperature of Uranus 90 K boiling point of oxygen |
100 K | 183.75 K (-89.4 °C) coldest temperature recorded on Earth, 273.15 K (0 °C) melting point of water, about 293 K room temperature, 373.15 K (100 °C) boiling point of water |
1000 K | 1808 K Melting point of iron 5780 K surface temperature of the Sun |
10,000 K | |
100,000 K | |
106 K | 13.6 MK temperature of the Sun's core |
109 K | |
1012 K | temperature shortly after Big Bang |
1.4 × 1032 K | theoretical Planck temperature |