Sentences with phrase «million degrees»

Considering the temperature in New York for the past week has been approximately a million degrees, I can relate to the concern of skyrocketing energy bills.

The sun's actual temperature ranges from several millions of degrees at its core to about 3 million degrees in the very diffuse corona above the «surface».

This is all done under immensely high pressure to make the target heat like the fiery interior of a star at a 180 million degrees Fahrenheit.

It was a jocular reference, I am sure, to Al Gore's recent claim, in the context of geothermal energy, that the temperature of the earth's core is «several million degrees.»

I think I have a solution for the «missing heat» - it has been absorbed and is responsible for the earth's core being 1 million degrees per Al Gore.

The temperature of the core is about 15 million degrees Kelvin and the density is about 150 g / cm ^ 3 (approximately 10 times the density of gold or lead).

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... I wore this full look in Italy to shoot the blog post, then quickly changed into a white tank alongside these pants (since it was a million degrees outside!).

A tank for when it's a million degrees on the runway, a jacket for when it's -40 in the air, flares & easy to walk in wedges.

When it's a million degrees outside, my chances of being a hot mess multiply.

It's obviously still a million degrees here in Dallas but lightweight sweaters and booties are a great way to transition into cooler weather.

You guys, I'm going to go ahead and address the elephant in the blog: I know I'm wearing a blazer, jeans, boots and it's a million degrees in North Carolina.

Even if you wear a fall one when it's a million degrees outside, it won't make you any more hot or any less comfortable!

(Side note: Yeah, I have no idea what's up with my body temperature, it's like a million degrees in there at all times.)

Alas, the 8 million degrees below zero we have been having (ok, highs have been around 0 degrees F — but still!)

It was a million degrees in Chicago this past weekend, so for day 1 of the festival I opted for UNIQLO's basic grey t - shirt with a pair of shredded denim boyfriend jeans.

If it wasn't a million degrees outside, I would have totally worn it again today!

I know it is like 9 million degrees, and it seems impossible to think about anything other than sandals.

Raw veggies are very cooling, which is perfect for when it's a million degrees out with five billion percent humidity.

Plus, this recipe uses a slow cooker for those who 1) enjoy throwing everything into one pot and running away, and 2) laughing forever about turning on the oven when it's a million degrees outside.

«I love telling mind - blowing facts, like every time we do a shot at NIF, we are one of the hottest places in the solar system,» said experimental plasma physicist Tammy Ma (NIF implosions reach peak temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Centigrade — more than five times hotter than the core of the Sun).

NIF's target chamber is where the magic happens — temperatures of 100 million degrees and pressures extreme enough to compress the target to densities up to 100 times the density of lead are created there.

The most recent advancements have come from Germany, where the Wendelstein 7 - X reactor recently came online with a successful test run reaching almost 180 million degrees, and China, where the EAST reactor sustained a fusion plasma for 102 seconds, although at lower temperatures.

At temperatures reaching a few million degrees Fahrenheit, the corona significantly hotter than the Sun's surface.

The intergalactic medium in the halos was at a relatively low temperature of only about 10,000 degrees Celsius (about 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit), which is widely divergent from the currently accepted models that put the temperature of gases in close proximity to galaxies at upward of 1 million degrees.

To date, the most successful fusion experiments have succeeded in heating plasma to over 900 million degrees Fahrenheit, and held onto a plasma for three and a half minutes, although not at the same time, and with different reactors.

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But a big payoff requires an equally large investment, and for decades we have wrestled with the problem of energizing and holding on to the hydrogen fuel as it reaches temperatures in excess of 150 million degrees Fahrenheit.

The plasmas in NSTX are, like most fusion experiments, confined using magnetic fields and walls designed to withstand the heat from plasmas with temperatures that exceed 100 million degrees Centigrade.

Temperatures in the fast wind can reach up to 1 million degrees F (800,000 C).

That optimization is critical when diagnostics will be in the unforgiving ITER reactor environment, with plasma temperatures of over 100 million degrees C. «For all of the equatorial ports, the environment is extremely harsh.

The Russians announced they had achieved an electron temperature of up to 20 million degrees Centigrade in the plasmas in their fusion experiments and the results convinced many researchers around the world that the tokamak was a better way to confine the plasma to create fusion energy.

The first helium plasma in the machine lasted a tenth of a second and achieved a temperature of 1 million degrees, according to the Max Planck Institute website.

The image shows different amounts of coronal material at a temperature of about 2.7 million degrees Fahrenheit.

For instance, the center of the ultrahot plasma contained within the walls of doughnut - shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks can reach temperatures well above the 15 million degrees Celsius core of the sun.

TFTR set a number of world records, including a plasma temperature of 510 million degrees centigrade — the highest ever produced in a laboratory, and well beyond the 100 million degrees required for commercial fusion.

Fox and Fiksel used two very powerful lasers to zap two tiny pieces of plastic in a vacuum chamber to 10 million degrees and create two colliding plumes of extremely hot plasma.

The very strong electric currents in these short circuits are what heats the corona to a temperature of several million degrees.

Colored according to x-ray energy intensity, this supernova remnant's bluish shockwave bubble is twice as hot as the mottled gaseous debris expanding behind at 10 million degrees Celsius (more at Astronomy Picture of the Day and CXC).

The relatively cool dark regions have temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius, in contrast to the bright glowing gas flowing around the sunspots, which have a temperature of over one million degrees Celsius.

Along with many other stars, the Sun's outer atmosphere has an extremely high temperature, rising from a surface temperature of 4000 - 6000 K, through the chromosphere and transition region to several million degrees in the corona.

«If you heated up a pot of water, no matter how hot, even if you vaporized it at a million degrees, it would still not be as hot as the electrons in the laser.»

When the temperature reaches about four million degrees Fahrenheit, nuclear fusion begins, tremendous amounts of energy are produced, and the star begins to shine.

That shouldn't be too surprising: Much of a halo's gas has a scorching temperature of a million degrees Celsius (1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit) or more.

When the core reaches a scorching 10 million degrees, the clump flares into life as a bright new star.

Solar moss consists of hot gas at about two million degrees Fahrenheit which emits extreme ultraviolet light observed by the TRACE instrument.

The moss consists of hot gas at about two million degrees Fahrenheit which emits extreme ultraviolet light observed by the TRACE instrument.

The coronal loops, at up to nine million degrees Fahrenheit, probably heat the moss by thermal conduction, similar to the way heat moves along an iron bar if one end is placed in a fire.