sicence stuff

[Ax the one]

can a solid be cooled to 10 degrees kelvin

[thekraut]

if you thik about it, most elements are solid at 10 Kelvin, so yes, it can

[Tweed]

10 degrees kelvin = -263 degrees Celsius, and I think it is possible to cool to that temperature.

[j2buttonsw]

In 1904 Dutch scientist Kamerlingh Onnes created a special lab in Leiden to get to lower temperatures than anyone had done before. In 1908 he managed to lower the temperature to less than one degree above the absolute minimum, which is 273 degrees below the freezing point of water. Only in this exceptional cold will helium turn into a liquid (at −269 C). Onnes achieved this feat first. He received a Nobel Prize for his efforts. Modern experimenters achieve temperatures measured in hundred billionths of a degree above so-called absolute zero.

[jake-the-peg]

Very  low temperatures (a thousanth of a degree kelvin) are needed to create the phase of matter known as the Einstein-Bose condensate.

This site has a lot of really cool (sorry) suff about how these sort of temperatures are reached with some fun java applets as well

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/