Hottest temperature recorded on Earth

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The hottest naturally occurring temperature recorded on Earth was 58 oC (136 oF), 13 September 1922, in El Azizia (also known as Al 'Aziziyah), 55 km south-east of Tripoli, Libya [1]. The hottest artificially produced temperature ever recorded on Earth was 3.6 billion oF (over 2 billion K) in Sandia National Laboratories’ Z Machine. Researchers recorded this temperature, which is hotter than the interior of the sun, using spectrometers during an experiment that creates superheated plasmas from hair-width strands of steel[2][3]. This record was confirmed by 14 months of additional testing at Sandia and the Naval Research Laboratory[4]


[edit] References

  1. ^ Al-Fenadi, Y. "Hottest temperature record in the world, El Azizia, Libya". . Libyan National Meteorological Centre (LNMC) Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
  2. ^ M. G. Haines, P. D. LePell, C. A. Coverdale, B. Jones, C. Deeney, and J. P. Apruzese (2006). "Ion Viscous Heating in a Magnetohydrodynamically Unstable Z Pinch at Over 2× 10^{9} Kelvin". Physical Review Letters 96:075003. 
  3. ^ Than, Ker. "Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees in Lab". LiveScience. last accessed: June 12, 2008
  4. ^ "Sandia’s Z machine exceeds two billion degrees Kelvin". Sandia Corporation. March 8, 2006. Last accessed: June 12, 2008.

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