• @[email protected]
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    7 months ago

    Sure. Kelvin is the proper scale. Celsius is just water from freezing to boiling at some atmospheric pressure divided into 100 units. Not because there’s anything absolute to it, but because water is kind of important in our lives.

    • dave@hal9000
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      67 months ago

      Like being the majority of our bodies!

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      7 months ago

      Exactly. I once visited a seed bank and there was some text along the lines of “we store these seeds at -60 °C which is 3 times as cold as your typical freezer” (for Americans: a freezer typically is about -20 °C). Yeah, no, that’s not how it works. With Kelvin you can actually do math like that, because 0 K is the absence of heat zero thermal energy.

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        57 months ago

        0 K is zero thermal energy, not heat. Heat is the amount of thermal energy transferred during a process.