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Re: bIrqu'choH

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: bIrqu'choH
• Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:27:22 EST

In a message dated 2/18/2006 11:02:19 AM Central Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> As it was explained
> to me, the deviser of the Celsius/centigrade scale 
> picked two universal physical markers, the boiling 
> point and the freezing point of water, and arbitrarily
> 
> labelled the latter 0 and the former 100, then it 
> was a simple matter to mark each degree between 
> these, since it was a simple percentage of 100.  There
> 
> is no such natural marker for temperatures below 
> freezing (except, as you note, absolute zero), 

Lots of materials melt/freeze or evaporate/condense at lower temperatures 
than those for water.  

lay'tel SIvten

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