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Celsius comparison table

Subject	has proposition date	is named after	has absolute zero	is an acronym for	has base unit	convert to Kelvin	has unit	has definition	has symbol	has triple point of water	has synonym	is a kind of	has boiling point of water	is an instance of	is a unit of
named derived SI unit				Syteme Internationale	defined in terms of the seven SI base units via a system of quantity equations		defined in terms of derived SI unit via a system of quantity equations					derived SI unit
temperature unit			-has source: Jerrard, H.G., McNeill, D.B. 1992 Dictionary of Scientific Units, Chapman and Hall					A temperature unit is a measure of the average kinetic energy per degree of freedom of the constituent molecules.		-has source: Jerrard, H.G., McNeill, D.B. 1992 Dictionary of Scientific Units, Chapman and Hall		unit			temperature
Celsius	1710	Anders Celsius (1701-1744)	-273.15	Syteme Internationale	K	add 273.15	defined in terms of derived SI unit via a system of quantity equations	A mercury-in-glass temperature scale. The zero of the scale represents the melting point of ice and the boiling point of water is taken to be 100 degrees.	°C	0.01	Centigrade		100	named derived SI unit	temperature

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