• Question: What is the highest temperature ever recorded?

    Asked by anon-267549 on 11 Nov 2020.
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      Bradley Young answered on 11 Nov 2020:

      Nuclear reactors can get pretty hot, the one in Culham (near Oxford) has reached 200 million degrees C which is more than 10 times as hot as the sun
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      This is nowhere near as hot as the large hadron collider at CERN in Switzerland got during an experiment though: 5.5 trillion degrees C

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