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Recent Examples on the Web 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, "A Scientist's Tiny Black Hole Brings the Cosmos Into the Lab," 8 Nov. 2019 As tuns, however, tardigrades can endure radiation, extreme pressure and extreme heat and cold, including temperatures near absolute zero. — NBC News, "What is a tardigrade?," 14 Oct. 2019 Inside, superconducting quantum processors were at operating temperature, a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. — Wired, "Quantum Computing Is Here! But Also Not Really," 24 Oct. 2019 This chip is bonded to a superconducting circuit board and then enclosed in a refrigerator so powerful that its temperature approaches absolute zero. — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, "Google scientists say they’ve achieved ‘quantum supremacy’ over classical computers," 23 Oct. 2019 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, "What Does Absolute Zero Mean?," 30 June 2019 But this new material, NaYbO2 (sodium ytterbium oxide), remains disordered at the lowest measurable temperature: .005 degrees Centigrade above absolute zero. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Looks Like We Have a New Material State," 5 Sep. 2019 This point, known as absolute zero, is the starting point of the Kelvin scale, which was named after Lord Kelvin, a British scientist who lived from 1824 to 1907. — Anchorage Daily News, "Thermometers are at work everywhere in cold-conscious Alaska," 7 Sep. 2019 Its high precision derives from a design that isolates the atoms from all forces except gravity, in part by keeping the particles in vacuum near absolute zero. — Wired, "Scientists Watch Atoms Fall to See Earth's Changing Structure," 3 Sep. 2019

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“Absolute zero.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absolute%20zero. Accessed 28 January 2020.