Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Muke Tever wrote:
> > By "two parts" I suppose that means "degrees" and "Celsius"; 'degree'
> > is just the name of the unit and 'Celsius' an adjective saying what
> > scale the unit is on (because degrees are used also to measure angles,
> > in the Fahrenheit scale, and some people will even say weird things
> > like "degrees kelvin").
>
> The kelvin is not used as two parts: absolute zero is zero kelvin (or
> `0 K' if you prefer). Why should the degree be used to measure two
> unrelated things, anyway? (Apparently, the lack of the `degrees' in
> `kelvin' is because the degrees symbol is used in some languages to mean
> something, or so says my chem teacher.
>
Just to point out that I do realise you were implying that `degrees
kelvin' is wrong; I got the wrong punctuation and was using it as an
argument to prove the point. <Hits head with hand.>

Tristan

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