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
The spontaneity of a process, as reflected in the arithmetic sign of its free energy change, is then determined by the signs of the enthalpy and entropy changes and, in some cases, the absolute temperature.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Second, it’s not about the absolute temperature or the absolute amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
From Forbes ● Jul. 28, 2013
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in whose honour the absolute temperature scale is now named, was among the most distinguished scientists of the late 19th century.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2013
It is that emission grows as the fourth power of absolute temperature.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
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