• Question: what is the most hoteest thing in the world?

    Asked by HermioneBat to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      @HermioneBat well the hottest temperatures reached are up to 57 degrees in Death Valley in the USA. Then there are some hot springs which can reach 90 degrees

    • Photo: Steven Thomson

      Steven Thomson answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Although if we extend your question to include the interior of the planet as well as the exterior, the molten core of the planet is 5700C – almost as hot as the surface of the Sun!

      The only place hotter than that might be some of the prototype nuclear fusion reactors. They can’t run for more than a fraction of a second, but some of them reach hundreds of millions of degrees, the temperature of the inside of the Sun!

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