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If you want "twice as hot" to be meaningful, you have to use an absolute scale, either Kelvin or Rankine. (1 K = 1.8 °R) Doubling absolute temperature doubles the pressure (at constant volume) or volume (at constant pressure) of an ideal gas. This gets really important when it comes to compressing and expanding air and other gasses.

Room temperature is approximately 293 K, twice that is 586 K / 595 °F / 313 °C. Hotter than your typical oven cooking temperature.

We often don't realize how warm the world we live in truly is, from a physics standpoint.

parent mikewarot 3 years ago

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