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Article: Kelvin temperature scale
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Kelvin temperature scale a
temperature
scale having an absolute zero below which temperatures do not exist.
Absolute zero
, or 0°K, is the temperature at which molecular
energy
is a minimum, and it corresponds to a temperature of -273.15° on the
Celsius temperature scale
. The Kelvin degree is the same size as the Celsius degree; hence the two reference temperatures for Celsius, the freezing point of water (0°C), and the boiling point of ...
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Encyclopedia entry: low-temperature physics
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;
700+ words
... ... with various phenomena that occur only at such temperatures. The temperature scale used in low-temperature physics is the Kelvin temperature scale , or absolute temperature scale, which is based on the behavior of an idealized gas (see gas ...
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