About this page:
This page is the primary page of "The Journey to Absolute Zero", an article about various temperatures ranging farthre and farther from what most people are familiar with. I start with room temperature and work my way down, eventually, to absolute zero.
As to temperature systems: When it says "5°C" that means five degrees celsius. This is not the same as the temperature system most Americans are used to, called fahrenheit. Where I've included the fahrenheit version, it's denoted in parentheses after the celsius version, ie "0°C (32°F)" means that a particular temperature is denoted either by zero degrees celsius or thirty-two degrees fahrenheit. If you're more familiar with the fahrenheit system, just ignore the celsius numbers and vice versa.
24°C (72°F) Room Temperature****************
20°C (68°F) Goose Bumps
4°C (39°F) Freshwater Turnover
0°C (32°F) Freezing Point of Water
include phenomena when mammals freeze
-78°C(-108°F), Carbon Dioxide freezes/sublimes (note; no liquid phase at std pressure)
-118.57°C(-181.43°F) Critical Temperature for Oxygen (pressure?)
-122.29°C (-188.12°F) Critical Temperature for Argon (pressure?)
-141°C(-222°F) Critical Temperature for Carbon Monoxide (at 35.9 atmospheres)
-182.97°C(-279.35°F) Oxygen condenses
Liquid oxygen (O2) is a light blue color and is highly paramagnetic [probably skip magnetism stuff].
-185.85°C(-302.5°F) Argon liquefies
-189.35°C(-308.83°F) Argon freezes
-195.80°C(-320.44°F) Nitrogen condenses
-210.01°C(-346.02°F) Nitrogen freezes
-222.80°C(-369.04°F) Oxygen freezes
-273.15°C(459.67°F) Absolute Zero.
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