1,000.0 °C / 1,273.2 K

Chimney

While the room is very comfortable at an air temperature of 20°C and the heat radiation from a crackling open fire...

100.0 °C / 373.2 K

Phase transition water-vapor

At an external air pressure of 1.013 bar, the phase transition from liquid to vapor occurs in water at a temperature of 100 °C.

60.0 °C / 333.2 K

Drinking water heating

Hot water supply, i.e., warm drinking water, is now almost standard in every household.

45.0 °C / 318.2 K

Heat pumps

The optimum flow temperature for operating a heat pump is most efficient at around 45 degrees Celsius. The flow temperature is the temperature of the heating water supplied to the radiators.

20.0 °C / 293.2 K

Air conditioning

The so-called comfort zone for air conditioning is between 20 and 26 °C and a humidity level of between 30 and 60%.

5.0 °C / 278.2 K

Refrigerator

The refrigerator is one of the most important electrical household appliances and can be found in 99.9% of households in Germany. Its most important task is to preserve food.

0.0 °C / 273.2 K

Phase change water-ice

The phase change from water to ice and vice versa occurs at a constant temperature of 0 °C. This melting temperature of pure water is used as one of two fixed points on the Celsius temperature scale.

-7.0 °C / 266.2 K

Soft serve ice cream

Everyone knows soft ice cream and almost everyone likes it

-18.0 °C / 255.2 K

Freezer

Freezers have become indispensable in many households for storing frozen food.

-25.0 °C / 248.2 K

Dresden Airport

Coldest temperature ever recorded in Dresden – measured on January 13, 1987 at Dresden Airport.

-40.0 °C / 233.2 K

Flash freezing of food

Freezing is a proven method of preserving food that is not consumed immediately or is only available at certain times of the year.

-75.0 °C / 198.2 K

Blood plasma

Blood plasma can be stored for two years at -30 to -40°C. But what if it needs to be stored for 20 years?

-78.0 °C / 195.2 K

Dry ice

No “Formula E” race without dry ice

-89.2 °C / 184.0 K

Antarctica

Coldest place ever measured in the world – official cold record

-110.0 °C / 163.2 K

Cold chamber

Can cold reduce rheumatic pain?

-114.0 °C / 159.2 K

Alcohol freezes

The freezing point for pure ethanol (drinking alcohol) is − 114.14 °C.

-120.0 °C / 153.2 K

Freeze-drying

Freeze drying in the Pharmaceutical industry -  It is used, for example, in wound dressings, tissue replacement, or as dental cones after tooth extraction.

-162.0 °C / 111.2 K

Natural gas during sea transport

Imagine if cars could be shrunk – natural gas for sea transport

-181.0 °C / 92.2 K

YBCO superconductors

No particle accelerator without YBCO superconductors

-183.0 °C / 90.2 K

Liquid oxygen

Fuel for rockets: liquid oxygen

-196.0 °C / 77.2 K

Magnetic cooling in maglev trains

Superconducting magnetic coils cooled with liquid helium at -196°C are necessary to generate a strong magnetic field for maglev trains such as the Transrapid.

-252.0 °C / 21.2 K

Hydrogen - Liquid Storage

What is the advantage of storing hydrogen in liquid form?

-269.0 °C / 4.2 K

MRI scanner

The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner – an electric magnetic field that is around 20,000 times stronger than the one of the Earth and would not be functional without cooling.

-271.0 °C / 2.2 K

Research at the ILK Dresden

Low-temperature research at ILK Dresden

-273.2 °C / 0.0 K

Quantum Computer

A qubit in a quantum computer can be an atom, an ion, or an electron.