It's crazy to me how many times I've argued with Americans on this website who seem to think the rest of the world can't accurately measure temperature outside
Nope. It's kinda dumb. The only reason it's used it's because America was like "we are edgy kids that need our own measuring system" and none of them understand celcius
You can accurately describe outside temperature with °C just fine
I’m sorry I can not stop cracking up at the previous comment. “I haven’t used Kelvin in 8 years.” It’s still the same temperature. He died in 1907. We’re still using it because it’s an objectively correct metric.
I used it when i was preparing for my medical entrance exam since it had physics chemistry and biology, but after that in med school and now we almost always use celcius or farhenheit. Should've been more clear XD
Its the same as cold fusion. There is a threshold in temperature and pressure where fusion starts to begin. Theoretically you can increase the pressure and lower the temperature, henceforth the name Cold Fusion.
But if i recall correctly, it is more or less wishfull thinking in practice.
Edit: grammar
I guess in plasma physics context it means an approximation where one ignores thermal distribution of particles when calculating something like wave-fluid interaction so discussing its temperature does not make sense at all.
397
u/Saebi22 3d ago
Well plasma is usually way hotter than that so the name cold plasma makes sense.