Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1917 — ABSOLUTE ZERO WHAT IT IS [ARTICLE]

ABSOLUTE ZERO WHAT IT IS

Term Means Point at Which No Heat Exists. Absolute zero, a term often used in scientific articles, means the point at which no heat exists. “Hot and cold’’ are elative terms. Ice may be warm when compared with frozen mercury at 40 degrees centigrade, for in reality hot and cold are only varying degrees of warmth, and a body absolutely cold would be one from which all heat was absent Its temperature then would bo at absolute zero. Absolute zero is assumed to be at 271 degrees centigrade. This point has never been actually reached.