• of temperature conversion formulas and comparisons among eight different temperature scales, several of which have long been obsolete. Temperatures on...
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  • Scale of temperature is a methodology of calibrating the physical quantity temperature in metrology. Empirical scales measure temperature in relation...
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    indicate temperature differences. Similar conventions exist for the Celsius scale, see Celsius § Temperatures and intervals. For an exact conversion between...
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    one of the few temperature scales that are inverted from the amount of thermal energy they measure; unlike most other temperature scales, higher measurements...
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    technology Conversion of scales of temperature Color temperature Planck temperature Temperature data logger T. J. Quinn (1983). Temperature. London: Academic...
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    The Réaumur scale (French pronunciation: [ʁeomy(ː)ʁ]; °Ré, °Re, °r), also known as the "octogesimal division", is a temperature scale for which the melting...
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    the unit of temperature on the Celsius temperature scale (originally known as the centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in...
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  • high temperatures), no unambiguous "conversion" between the scales is possible. The linseed thermometer could be used up to the melting point of tin....
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  • term degree is used in several scales of temperature, with the notable exception of kelvin, primary unit of temperature for engineering and the physical...
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  • Rankine scale to other temperature scales are shown in the table below. Outline of metrology and measurement Comparison of temperature scales The freezing...
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  • system of units Scale of temperature Conversion of scales of temperature Celsius Delisle scale Fahrenheit Gas mark Kelvin Leiden scale Newton scale Rankine...
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    K) is the base unit for temperature in the International System of Units (SI). The Kelvin scale is an absolute temperature scale that starts at the lowest...
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    Rankine temperature scale, and the thermodynamic temperature scale. Other temperature scales have their numerical zero far from the absolute zero of temperature...
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  • for multiple temperature scales.: 362  The boiling point of water was defined as 60 degrees. Rømer then saw that the freezing point of pure water was...
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    Celsius temperature scales. It is an approximation of thermodynamic temperature that facilitates the comparability and compatibility of temperature measurements...
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  • Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor...
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    negative thermodynamic temperature; that is, their temperature can be expressed as a negative quantity on the Kelvin or Rankine scales. This phenomenon was...
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    Most ordinary human activity takes place at temperatures of this order of magnitude. Circumstances where water naturally occurs in liquid form are shown...
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    Gas mark (category Scales of temperature)
    temperature scale used on gas ovens and cookers in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth of Nations countries. The draft 2003 edition of the...
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    Cryogenics (redirect from Low temperature)
    temperature scale, both of which measure from absolute zero, rather than more usual scales such as Celsius which measures from the freezing point of water...
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    Chromate conversion coating or alodine coating is a type of conversion coating used to passivate steel, aluminium, zinc, cadmium, copper, silver, titanium...
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  • thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is a renewable energy technology that harnesses the temperature difference between the warm surface waters of the ocean and...
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    ADC, the conversion time scales with the logarithm of the resolution, i.e. the number of bits. Flash ADCs are certainly the fastest type of the three;...
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    062 gigabytes per nanojoule; at room temperature: T = 300K, β ≈ 44 GB/nJ ≈ 39 eV−1 ≈ 2.4×1020 J−1. The conversion factor is 1 GB/nJ = 8 ln ⁡ 2 × 10 18...
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    Energy conversion efficiency (η) is the ratio between the useful output of an energy conversion machine and the input, in energy terms. The input, as well...
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  • all based on mass fraction of sucrose; the tables for the three scales differ mainly in their precision and in the temperature at which the measurements...
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  • high reaction rates, but results in incomplete conversion of carbon monoxide. A subsequent low temperature shift reactor lowers the carbon monoxide content...
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    has a source of heat at temperature Ts and cooler heat sink at temperature Tc, the maximum theoretically possible value for the ratio of work (or electric...
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  • atmospheric thermodynamics, the virtual temperature ( T v {\displaystyle T_{v}} ) of a moist air parcel is the temperature at which a theoretical dry air parcel...
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    Thermoelectric effect (category Energy conversion)
    The thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa via a thermocouple. A thermoelectric...
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