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Scientists just created the coldest substance on Earth, and it has some really weird properties
Physicists have chilled molecules to just a smidgen above absolute zero — colder than the afterglow of the Big Bang. Scientists have created such superchilled atoms, these are the coldest molecules (which are two or more atoms chemically connected) ever created, the scientists said. The achievement could reveal the wacky physics thought to occur at jaw-droppingly cold temperatures.
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Really interesting, I wonder why they chose sodium and potassium to form the molecule. I wonder if the experiment needed such an odd molecule.