In July 2018, an experiment aboard the International Space Station cooled a clouded a cloud of atoms of which chemical element to one ten-millionth of one kelvin above absolute zero, forming a Bose-Einstein Condensate in space?
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. Rubidium.
- In July 2018, an experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) cooled a cloud of atoms of the chemical element rubidium to one ten-millionth of one kelvin above absolute zero, forming a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) in space.
- This experiment, known as the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), aimed to study the behavior of ultra-cold quantum gases in microgravity conditions.