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Is there any electronic machine that can create cold/freezing temperatures?

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I was curious whether electricity can create freezing conditions...

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  1. In a roundabout way,electricity has created the coldest temperatures in the universe...

    It powers lasers which have been used to cool a Bose-Einstein Condensate of Molybendum atoms (I may have the elemental gas wrong bttw) to less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, or 0K

    And, electricity is really just the flow of charge, i.e. electrons (and their absences, 'holes'), which are required for laser action in the first place as well as powering the whole thing.

    So yes.  


  2. Look up 'Peltier Effect' or 'Seebeck Effect' for details

  3. A freezer perhaps.  

  4. Doesn't a refrigerator do this ?

  5. You can build peltier junction devices and stack them up to create pretty big power drops

    Some experimental work going on for acoustic cooling (uses sound waves to compress fluid instead of compressors), makes it a more solid state device

    Also some work on magnetic cooling (same idea as sound, uses alternating magnetic fields on ferro-fluid)

      

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