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
This is because the average kinetic energy of molecules, 1mv2 , is proportional to absolute temperature.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Second, it’s not about the absolute temperature or the absolute amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
From Forbes • Jul. 28, 2013
The formula PV = RT shows that for a given mass, with the same volume, the pressure increases in proportion to the absolute temperature.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
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