kelvin scale

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From: Paraluman Stice-Durkin (pstice-durkin@punahou.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 00:50:52 PDT 

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From: "Paraluman Stice-Durkin" <pstice-durkin@punahou.edu>
Subject: kelvin scale
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:50:52 -1000

I have always taught it as "Kelvin", because i had an adamant college
professor whose pet peeve was when we said "degrees Kelvin" , presumably
because it is redundant if one K is defined as one degree C? At least this
is the explanation I give students. Anyone??

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