Date: 17 Jan 2004 14:57:35 GMT From: Dave Hinz <davehinznopsamcop.net> Subject: Re: Get me the President of Saab !
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 05:45:19 GMT, Malcolm Mason <mwm1XXXnopsamedu> wrote: > > By the way Kelvin is the absolute- zero- based scale based on the old > Centigrade (now Celcius)scale using the temperature at which molecular > activity was then thought to have ceased and I believe that is now > sort of, more or less, almost, practically, about stopped. So far, so good, more or less, but then: > And it very > much has degrees . One Kelvin degree is one Celcxius degree just as > one Rankine degree is one Fahrenheit degree. One _Kelvin_ is the same temperature difference as one Degree Celcius, but it's a Kelvin, it's not a "degree Kelvin".