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Where was the lowest temperature ever created and measured in a laboratory experiment achieved?

AAn Antarctic outpost
BA nebula in deep space
CA power plant in Iraq
DA lab in Finland
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. A lab in Finland
1. Several extreme temperature records are given together for comparison. 2. The lowest temperature ever created and measured during a laboratory experiment was achieved at Helsinki University of Technology, which is in Finland, reaching about 1.0 x 10^-10 K. 3. The coldest surface temperature on Earth, 183 K, was recorded at Vostok, an outpost in Antarctica, but that is a natural reading rather than a laboratory experiment. 4. The Boomerang Nebula, a location in deep space, is the coldest known place outside a laboratory, at 1 K. 5. A power plant in Iraq is unrelated to temperature records and is simply a distractor. 6. So a lab in Finland is correct. _Source: OpenStax Physics (CC BY 4.0), Ch 11 "Thermal Energy, Heat, and Work", section 11.1 Temperature and Thermal Energy_
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