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Kelvin comparison table

Subject	is named after	has absolute zero	is an acronym for	has definition	has symbol	has approval agency	has triple point of water	has synonym	is a kind of	has approval date	is an instance of	convert to Celsiu	is a unit of
base SI unit			Syteme Internationale	a unit assumed to be mutually independent from which all other units are 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
Kelvin	Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)	0	Syteme Internationale	Unit of thermodynamic temperature, is the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water	K	16th CGPM	273.16	absolute		1968	base SI unit	subtract 273.15	temperature

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