What's the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth and where??

Answer 1

By Ker Than

Updated: 7:59 p.m. ET March 8, 2006
Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.

This is hotter than the interior of our sun, which is about 15 million degrees Kelvin, and also hotter than any previous temperature ever achieved on Earth, they say.

They don't know how they did it.

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The feat was accomplished in the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories.

"At first, we were disbelieving," said project leader Chris Deeney. "We repeated the experiment many times to make sure we had a true result."

Thermonuclear explosions are estimated to reach only tens to hundreds of millions of degrees Kelvin; other nuclear fusion experiments have achieved temperatures of about 500 million degrees Kelvin, said a spokesperson at the lab.

The achievement was detailed in the Feb. 24 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.

The Z machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world. It’s designed to test materials under extreme temperatures and pressures. It works by releasing 20 million amps of electricity into a vertical array of very fine tungsten wires. The wires dissolve into a cloud of charged particles, a superheated gas called plasma.

A very strong magnetic field compresses the plasma into the thickness of a pencil lead. This causes the plasma to release energy in the form of X-rays, but the X-rays are usually only several million degrees.

Sandia researchers still aren’t sure how the machine achieved the new record. Part of it is probably due to the replacement of the tungsten steel wires with slightly thicker steel wires, which allow the plasma ions to travel faster and thus achieve higher temperatures.

One thing that puzzles scientists is that the high temperature was achieved after the plasma’s ions should have been losing energy and cooling. Also, when the high temperature was achieved, the Z machine was releasing more energy than was originally put in, something that usually occurs only in nuclear reactions.

Sandia consultant Malcolm Haines theorizes that some unknown energy source is involved, which is providing the machine with an extra jolt of energy just as the plasma ions are beginning to slow down.

Sandia National Laboratories is located by Albuquerque New Mexico and is part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Answer 2

Record set for hottest temperature on Earth
Scientists produce gas more than 100 times hotter than the sun

"Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.
This is hotter than the interior of our sun, which is about 15 million degrees Kelvin, and also hotter than any previous temperature ever achieved on Earth, they say.
They don't know how they did it."
See site 1 below.

The following are recorded natural temperatures. It is most likely that there have been higher temperatures but that there were no thermometers in the spot to record them.

The hottest temperature ever recorded anywhere on the globe was in Al' Aziziyah, Libya 136.4 degrees F in September of 1922

The record highest temperature ever measured in the United States was at Death Valley, CA , 134 degrees F in July of 1913

Dakol, in northeastern Ethiopia has the world's highest average temperature, it lies in the Danakil Depression. The mean temperature is 94 degrees F.
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Answer 3

In 1922, a temperature of 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded in Libya.

Answer 4

Man made temperatures are very extremme hotter than the core of the sun.

Answer 5

Dec 12 2012 at 11:11 it will be like 5 million degrees of hell fire! Woohoo !

Answer 6

The top of my wifes head, when I came home with a Hot Rod Mustang "Look honey, I got this for you".

Answer 7

Death Valley in California in 1913 when it reached 53.7 deg

Answer 8

1000000 degrees centigrade at the core of the earth

Answer 9

45degree centigrade .The region at equator.

Answer 10

After my wife told me she was pregnant..again!!