What is the highest temperature ever produced in a laboratory?
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Erin Albrecht
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The highest temperature ever produced in a laboratory was 9.2x10^8 degrees Fahrenheit (5.11x10^8 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, New Jersey. [From http://www.hightechscience.org/funfacts.htm]
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From http://www.aip.org/pnu/2006/split/767-3.html "A temperature of 2 to 3 billion degrees Kelvin -- hotter than the interior of any known star -- has been achieved in a lab in New Mexico. The temperature record was set recently in a test shot at the Z Pinch device at Sandia National Laboratory, where an immense amount of electrical charge is stored in a device called a Marx generator. Many capacitors in parallel are charged up and then suddenly switched into a series configuration, generating a voltage of 8 million volts. [ ... ] This colossal electrical discharge constitutes a current of 20 million amps passing through a cylindrical array of wires, which implodes. The imploding material reaches the record high temperature and also emits a large amount of X-ray energy " ref Physical Review Letters, 24 February 2006
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