In reply to Adrian (& to expand on "[USMA:23767] RE: Kelvin"), the
following comes from a NIST report on the measuring of matter--
New State of Matter Seen Near
Absolute Zero
Researchers at JILA, a joint program of NIST and the University of
Colorado at Boulder, recently announced that they achieved a temperature
far lower than any previously produced and created an entirely new state
of matter predicted 70 years ago by Albert Einstein and Indian physicist
Satyendra Nath Bose. A paper in the July 14 Science by Eric Cornell, Carl
Wieman and colleagues describes how the team cooled rubidium atoms to less
than 170 nanokelvin (billionths of a degree Celsius) above absolute zero.
The extreme cold caused the individual atoms to condense into a
"superatom" that behaved as a single entity. Before photographing the
superatom known as a Bose-Einstein condensate the physicists cooled the
atoms to 20 nanokelvin above absolute zero, the lowest temperature ever
achieved. The achievement climaxed a 15-year search by physicists
worldwide for the condensate
At 06:08 PM 12/3/02 -0500, Metric US wrote:
Since the Kelvin is not designated as a "degree" anymore, can it be used
with multiples and submultipes like all other units? Ex: kilokelvin
I think that this was the intention of the BIPM when they removed the
appelative "degree".
Adrian
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