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The crazy story of the arbitrary temperature scale used in a tiny minority of countries. Check out Audible: http://bit.ly/Audi bleVe Snatoms are availa (more)

The crazy story of the arbitrary temperature scale used in a tiny minority of countries.
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References:
A History of the Thermometer and its uses in Meteorology by W. E. Knowles Middleton

Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold by Tom Shachtman

The Science of Measurement, A Historical Survey by Herbert Arthur Klein

Lehrbuch der Chemie by Jöns Jakob Berzelius

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