Fact Of The Week: -273.15ºC - The Coldest Temperature Possible

Fact of the week: -273.15ºC - The coldest temperature possible.

0K, or -273ºC is the coldest temperature that is physically possible. The temperature at which, theoretically, every substance is solid, the substance will have no energy. This temperature in known as absolute zero.


(above) The Celsius to Kelvin scale.


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