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minus-square@rtxnlinkEnglish47•edit-23 months agoIt’s the Rankine. Some Scottish dude wanted to use Kelvin without using Kelvin. It’s basically the Fahrenheit scale but with 0˚R set at absolute zero. 0˚R = 0K and 1˚R = 0K + 1˚F
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•3 months agoFrom what I can gather, R and Ra are the same thing?
minus-squareSkualinkfedilink10•3 months agoThey are. The post could swap one of them out for Re or Rø instead and it would work, though
minus-squareKaryoplasmalinkfedilinkEnglish9•edit-23 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Réaumur_scale so, they meant °r probably
It’s the Rankine. Some Scottish dude wanted to use Kelvin without using Kelvin. It’s basically the Fahrenheit scale but with 0˚R set at absolute zero.
0˚R = 0K
and1˚R = 0K + 1˚F
From what I can gather, R and Ra are the same thing?
They are. The post could swap one of them out for Re or Rø instead and it would work, though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Réaumur_scale
so, they meant °r probably