it can right, because until it reaches abosolute zero, it has the potential to keep getting colder
2007-01-09 14:23:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Yea, but the limit is Absolute Zero.
2007-01-09 14:29:00 · answer #1 · answered by ststeve11 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everything has some sort of "heat" There is no such thing as "Absolute Zero." The whole world (except America) knows that 0 is freezing, yet there temps at -30. It is not really any colder, it just has different factors. Once freezing has become "Instant" that is the end. It cannot become any colder. It is instant as it has no heat value except on the scale. Surrounding factos influence this as well. For example, for an ice cube to reach maximum cold - it cannot be affected by any heat source - we would have to freeze as well, as the atmosphere etc.
2007-01-09 22:38:56 · answer #2 · answered by geoffgilsey 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No.
Temperature is related to thermal energy. The more you take away, the colder an item is. When there is no more energy to take, the object has reached the coldest possible temperature- zero degrees Kelvin.
You can't take beer from an empty fridge, either.
2007-01-09 22:30:48 · answer #3 · answered by Alan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Impossible:
Absolute zero is the lowest possible temperature where nothing could be colder and no heat energy (or kinetic energy) remains in a substance. Absolute zero is the point at which molecules stop and they have minimal movement vibrations or none, retaining only quantum mechanical, zero-point energy-induced particle motion.
2007-01-09 22:28:07 · answer #4 · answered by trebor_regnirps 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You ask the question and then you bring up the concept of absolute zero. Absolute zero (-273 degrees C) would be the limit. So...no.
2007-01-09 22:30:13 · answer #5 · answered by violet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right, but once it hits absolute zero (0K,-273 deg. C), all motion stops and matter cannot get any colder.
2007-01-09 23:43:01 · answer #6 · answered by Pius Thicknesse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The theoretical limit is absolute 0 K. This value can only be approached and not achieved.
2007-01-09 22:42:26 · answer #7 · answered by Scott S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No.
Absolute zero *is* the limit.
2007-01-09 23:28:01 · answer #8 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋