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minus-squarertxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·edit-21年前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 and 1˚R = 0K + 1˚F
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1年前From what I can gather, R and Ra are the same thing?
minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1年前They are. The post could swap one of them out for Re or Rø instead and it would work, though
minus-squareKaryoplasma@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21年前https://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 = 0Kand1˚R = 0K + 1˚FFrom 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