I’ve heard a few times now in various scientific fields, mainly experiments, about things getting as hot as the sun.
How is this possible? Surely if you do something and you create heat that is that hot it would melt anything surrounding it?
Would love to know how this works 🙂
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Most things that are very hot are also very small amounts. A electric arc welder can create a 7000 degree arc, but it’s only in microgram amounts of air. A laser array that heats a fusion experiment target to millions of degrees is shooting a pellet of a few milligrams.
Things that are very small can be very hot without having that much total energy.
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