temperature
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The Arctic's combined sea surface and sea-ice surface temperature rose 4.2C between 1982 and 2024, or around 1C per decade, according to the 10th annual oceans report.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Anyone who has ever heated a pot of water knows that temperature depends on more than how hot something gets.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Pioneer bought additional tooling and experimented with changes in temperature and curing times to better understand and fix the problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Those predictions include tiny temperature variations scattered across the CMB.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
The temperature dropped to a most inhospitable level.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Saturday is expected to be the peak of the heat wave, with temperatures reaching triple digits in parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, according to the National Weather Service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
As temperatures fall, she advised people to be mindful of their energy use and focus heating on the rooms they spend most time in.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
It is the only non-Chinese commercial producer of so-called heavy rare earths, such as dysprosium and terbium, which are added to magnets to help them run more efficiently at higher temperatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Long periods of elevated water temperatures can intensify other environmental pressures, including low oxygen conditions and harmful algal blooms.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
By making careful measurements of how much radiation came off objects at various temperatures, they showed that the Rayleigh-Jeans formula was, indeed, failing to predict the true amount of light that comes from objects.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing temperature
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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