absolute temperature
Britishnoun
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PhD candidate Frederick Held adds: "Until now, we have been able to describe the trends, but it would be great if we were able to establish an absolute temperature value."
From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024
Droegemeier was neither named for the Victorian physicist Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, nor for the eponymous Kelvin scale of absolute temperature.
From Slate • Aug. 3, 2018
It turns out that the energy flux from a blackbody at temperature T is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
Second, it’s not about the absolute temperature or the absolute amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
From Forbes • Jul. 28, 2013
Now let the stress be increased to S + dS while the extension is kept constant, and the absolute temperature raised from T to T + dT.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew
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