Word: celsius
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...quartet of soloists, MacIntyre Dixon, Joy Franz, Jonathan Hadary and Donald Corren, embody the Lampoon spirit of Tomfoolery and if at times they breathe too hard, it is not their age but the material's. Tom Lehrer "admits to 53, but prefers to think of it as 11 Celsius...
...name, rank and serial number of temperature highs and lows but also the larger meteorological events: cold sweeping down from Canada, a warm front out of the Gulf Stream or the metastasis of a storm from Martinique. It may sometimes sound like a cheerful patter of mumbo jumbo and Celsius conversions, like a lounge comedian who did a semester at M.I.T., but on the whole, people learn what they want to know. The audience pays weathercasters the compliment of its attention, and advertisers pay the compliment of their dollars. The weather is always among the surest draws on local news...
...antenna was of far greater significance: its temperature was remarkably close to what scientists had been predicting for radiation left over from the primordial fireball. In theory, this radiation should be equivalent to what would be emitted by a so-called black body with a temperature of only 3.5 Celsius degrees above absolute zero-or about what the temperature of the universe should be now, billions of years after the fireball. The Bell scientists' discovery virtually confirmed that the universe had begun with a bang and, as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences put it, "has made it possible...
...Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, scientists regularly heat the plasma in the Princeton Large Torus until it glows like an ectoplasmic bagel and have just achieved a density of 1014 particles per cubic centimeter, a confinement time of .10 second and a temperature of 35 million degrees Celsius...
...record plasma temperature-130 million degrees Celsius-has been attained at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory with another variety of magnetic machine: the 2XII-B, which consists of an open-ended tube surrounded by magnets. Extra-powerful magnetic fields at the ends of the tube act as "mirrors," reflecting particles toward the center of the device and reducing leakage. But none of these or other exotic magnetic devices have yet simultaneously produced all three conditions necessary for controlled fusion...