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Réaumur scale
noun
- a scale of temperature in which the freezing point of water is taken as 0° and the boiling point is 80°
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Réaumur scale1
C18: named after René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757), French physicist, who introduced it
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