LoginAbsolute Zero (Absolute Zero)
Directed by
David Dugan
Starring
Iain Agnew
James Dewar
Marinus Smit
Johannes van der Waals
Henk Van Rooyen
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Written by
Tom Shachtman
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Description:
Discover the mysteries of cold in this "Nova" special covering four centuries of scientific achievement, including the ice trade, the development of refrigeration and air conditioning and the early efforts to create liquid helium and nitrogen. The program also explains just what makes something cold and how atoms begin to change as they approach absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature in the universe.
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