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If we are going to talk about temperature, we need
a system. Common systems are:
Fahrenheit: lousy for scientific use.
Centigrade: 0
C - 100
C
Kelvin: same degrees as Centigrade; but zero is absolute zero. All
molecular motion stops. ``Atoms would lie on the floor like marbles''.
Some temperature in the Kelvin system:
0K - ABSOLUTE ZERO!!!
77K - Temperature of liquid nitrogen
290K - temperature in this room
373K - water boils.
Steve Spangler
Thu Aug 26 11:24:07 CDT 1999