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In response to "Not sure why a temperature system that uses the freezing point of water as inferior to one that arbitrarily has it at 32 -- nm" by Zorcàs

Setting "0" as the freezing point of water is also arbitrary. Why does the temperature need to be tied to

Posted by TWuG Jul 1 '14, 12:52

water at all?

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it's an obvious reference point for the scale -- nm - znufrii Jul 1, 13:01
it's kinda available everywhere? -- nm - marcel Jul 1, 12:59 2
- But the freezing point isn't consistent. Altitude and salinity both affect the scale. -- nm - TWuG Jul 1, 13:04 1
  - in any lab in the world you can take pure water at a standard atmosphere of pressure and measure the temperature that it freezes. The other marker (bo - Zorcàs Jul 1, 13:32
becouse "cold beer" is a subjective scale -- nm - Dándukini Jul 1, 12:57
Or a base 10 numerical system. -- nm - Wawa Jul 1, 12:55

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