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What is an absolute zero?

What is an absolute zero? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (physics) The coldest possible temperature, zero on the Kelvin scale, or approximately −273.15 °C, −459.67 °F; total absence of heat; temperature at which motion of all molecules would cease. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
  2. (slang) A person or thing of absolutely no consequence.
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In the billions of years since, they have cooled to less than three degrees Kelvin above absolute zero, equivalent to microwave frequencies.
In fact, to quash all doubts, zero on the Kelvin scale is dubbed absolute zero.
But in recent years researchers have found a handful of complex metal-free materials that can become magnetic at temperatures near absolute zero.
A regular incandescent light bulb relies on the fact that all bodies with a temperature greater than absolute zero emit radiation.
After having cooled off for many billions of years, the temperature of this radiation is just a few degrees above absolute zero.
At absolute zero the internal energy of the system would be zero since temperature is proportional to internal energy.

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