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Nova: Absolute Zero PART 1 – THE CONQUEST OF COLD 1. Cornelius Drebbel had a wager with King James I in 1620. What was it?

2. What does adding salt do to ice?

3. What is Robert Boyle primarily famous for?

4. When and where were the first accurately calibrated thermometers made?

5. What was the biggest problem with these first thermometers?

6. How were thermometers made smaller?

7. Describe the 18th century theory that rivaled the theory that particles slow down as they cool and speed up when they warm?

8. What was the fate of Lavoisier?

9. Who or what did Rumford leave his wife for?

10. What was the name of Tudor’s ship for transporting ice?

11. What was the “single most important economic problem in Europe?”

12. How did the SI unit for energy become the Joule?

13. What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?

14. What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

15. Why did some people call their refrigerator the “ice box?”

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He could turn summer into winter. It lowers the temperature at which ice melts. Boyle is famous for his experiments on the nature of air. Mid 17th century, Florence. There was a lack of a universally-accepted temperature scale. They used mercury instead of alcohol or air. Caloric theory – heat was a weightless substance called caloric. He was arrested and beheaded. His first love – science. The Favorite How much useful work can you get out of a given amount of heat? He proved the existence of something that converts between heat and motion. Energy can never be created or destroyed - only converted. Heat always flows from hot to cold; never from cold to hot. Refrigerators originally used a block of ice to cool food....