Sensor Technology Handbook

| Absolute zero | ?273.15 |
| Helium boils | ?269 |
| Nitrogen boils | ?196 |
| Oxygen boils | ?183 |
| Dry ice (CO 2) freezes | ?79 |
| Mercury freezes | ?39 |
| Water freezes | 0 |
| Room temperature | ~20 |
| Butter melts | 31 |
| Body temperature | ~37 |
| Paraffin boils | ~54 |
| Alcohol boils | 78 |
| Water | 100 |
| Saturated salt solution boils | 108 |
| Tin melts | 232 |
| Lead melts | 327 |
| Sulfur boils | 445 |
| Aluminum melts | 657 |
| NaCl melts | 801 |
| Silver melts | 961 |
| Gold melts | 1063 |
| Copper melts | 1083 |
| Glass melts | 1000 1400 |
| Steel melts | 1300 1400 |
| Iron melts | 1530 |
| Lead boils | 1620 |
| Platinum melts | 1774 |
| Bunsen burner | 1870 |
| Iron boils | 2450 |
| Tungsten melts | ~3410 |
| Oxyacetylene flame | 3500 |
| Carbon arc | 5500 |
| Surface of the sun | 6000 |
| Iron welding arc | 6020 |