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Re: Temperature Scales



At 4:17 PM -0500 11/16/00, David Bowman, you wrote about Re:
Temperature Scales:


It was the old centigrade scale (not the current Celsius scale) that was
calibrated at the freezing and boiling points of pure water (at 1 atm)
to be 0 deg and 100 deg respectively.


and dissolved atmospheric gasses in the H2O were part of the
Centigrade definition if I remember correctly. This sorta like a mL
of H2O no longer being an exact gram.

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