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by wickedwillie on January 15th, 2004

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What is the hottest temperature ever measured on earth, and what is the coldest?

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  • by Kim Siever on January 15th, 2004

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    Apparently the hottest temperature ever measured took place in El Azizia, Libya on 13 September 1922. The temperature reached 58 °C (136 °F). The USA national weather service recorded 56.7 °C (134 °F) in Death Valley, California, on 10 July 1913. This is likely the second hottest temperature ever recorded on earth. See http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/MichaelLevin.shtml for more information.

    On page 217, of Prentice Hall's Earth Science Revised Third Edition, it states, "...the temperature in Vostok, Antarctica, dropped to nearly -89.2 °C, the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth." However, other sources claim the temperature was anywhere between -89.2 °C and -91 °C. See http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/YongLiLiang.shtml for more information.

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  • by pdoc201 on July 27th, 2007

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    Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Celsius, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.

    This is hotter than the interior of our sun, which is about 15 million degrees Celsius, and also hotter than any previous temperature ever achieved on Earth, they say.

    They don't know how they did it.

    The feat was accomplished in the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories.

    "At first, we were disbelieving," said project leader Chris Deeney. "We repeated the experiment many times to make sure we had a true result."

    Thermonuclear explosions are estimated to reach only tens to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius; other nuclear fusion experiments have achieved temperatures of about 500 million degrees Celsius, said a spokesperson at the lab.

    The achievement was detailed in the Feb. 24 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.

    Scientists have gotten within billionths of a degree to reaching absolute zero (–273.15 °C).

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  • by Anonymous on November 22nd, 2008

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    Go fuck your self that is ice cold bitch

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  • by Anonymous on January 11th, 2008

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    hot: my breath at 45,000,000 C
    cold: my sperm at 399.5 C

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  • by SoPtAmEr on May 15th, 2007

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    i live in the Gordanian v. in Israel and in the summer time it is very often that the tempratures exceed 50 degrees C. so i magine that at some point in the past it had exceeded 58 degrees C. who knowes!!!

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  • by warlock12345 on November 14th, 2010

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    The hottest temperature ever measured on Earth was recorded at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Labs. In an ensuing collision of Gold ions, temperatures in the plasma that was created exceeded 7 trillion degrees Fahrenheit. This temperature was not only the hottest measurement ever taken on Earth, but was the hottest temperature ever recorded in the known Universe since the Big Bang. Such temperatures do not occur in nature.

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