• 🐋 Color 🔱 ♀@lemm.ee
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    15 hours ago

    30°C is 303 Kelvin. Half of that is 151 Kelvin, which translates into a fairly mild -122°C!

    Takes out hockey stick

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      7 hours ago

      New strategy to prevent global warming: just freeze all of the CO2 out of the air!

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      7 hours ago

      Wait, does it? Are joules in thermal energy per kelvin a purely linear relationship?

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        4 hours ago

        Fun fact: gas pressure changes linearly with temperature. If you make one of these plots at mild conditions you can extraplate the line down to zero pressure and measure where absolute zero temperature is

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        For the most part, it varies by material and state of matter, but assuming the chemical composition doesnt change and no material changes phase, then it is pretty close to linear in most materials.