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
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
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
He gave figures from which it was easy, as Professor Van t'Hoff found, to draw the conclusion that, in a constant volume, the osmotic pressure is proportional to the absolute temperature.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien
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