Practical temperature scales.(Measure Temperature, part 2)

From: Ceramic Industry | Date: November 1, 1995| Author: Berard, M.F.; Jones, John T. | Copyright information

In the first article in this series, we described the way in which a complete temperature scale can be defined by selecting two reproducible temperature conditions and assigning specific values of temperature to these two conditions. The reproducible temperature conditions usually selected are the melting points, or sometimes triple points of pure substances. For example, the Celsius temperature scale (formerly called the Centigrade scale) defines the freezing point of water as 0 [deg...

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