cold

Text, activities, and simple experiments explain the scientific concepts of hot and cold with examples from everyday life.

Carlitos is chilly all over and needs a hug to warm him up.

Presents the history of low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer. The conquest of cold opens with experiments in the 1600s that asked what heat and cold are and whether they are different aspects of the same phenomenon. Shows how the experiments that settled those questions helped stoke the Industrial Revolution. The race for absolute zero dramatizes the rivalry between Scottish researcher James Dewar and Dutch physicist Heike Onnes, who plunged cold science to the forbidding realm at which oxygen and then hydrogen turn into liquids. Shows how the quest continues today as scientists pioneer super-fast computing near absolute zero--the ultimate chill of -459.67? F, where atoms slow to a virtual standstill.

Text and photographs explain through observation and simple experiments sources and uses of heat and cold, how temperature is measured, and the effects of temperature on the world around us.

Simple text and color photographs depict the differences between hot and cold materials. Explains that materials can change when they are hot or cold.

Uses simple texts and photographs to explain for young readers the different ways various materials can be cooled. Includes fact-boxes and investigative exercises for hands-on experiments.

Presents the author's year-long journey through history, myth, geography, and ecology studying the effects of cold and its impact on the earth.

A little boy wakes up one frigid morning and tries to decide how cold it really is outside.