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Reaumur comparison table

Subject	has absolute zero	is named after	has proposal date	has definition	has triple point of water	is a kind of	has boiling point of water	is an instance of
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
Reaumur	-218.52	R. A. F. Reaumur (1683-1757)	1730	An arbitrary scale in which the freezing and boiling points of water are taken to be 0 and 80°R respectively. The scale is based on the thermal expansion of an alcohol and water mixture. If the 'length' is 1000 units at the ice point the length expands to 1080 units at the boiling point, hence the peculiar figure of 80 in this scale.	0		80	temperature unit

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