You are correct Jim. I was thinking "practical temperature scale" (i.e. ITS-90) but typed "Celsius scale" in error.
---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:08:49 -0500 >From: "James R. Frysinger" <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:48447] Re: kelvin >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > >The kelvin scale does NOT calibrate the Celsius scale. They are defined >together by ITS-90. > >Jim > >On 2010-09-01 1346, [email protected] wrote: >> >> However "impractical" the thermodynamic kelvin scale is *necessary* to >> "calibrate" the fixed points on the Celsius scale. How else could the >> melting temperatures of gold and platinum, for example, be determined? >> >> >>> On Aug 31 , at 7:45 AM, John M. Steele wrote: >>> >>> measurement on the thermodynamic scale is somewhat >>> impractical, >> >> >> >> > >-- >James R. Frysinger >632 Stony Point Mountain Road >Doyle, TN 38559-3030 > >(C) 931.212.0267 >(H) 931.657.3107 >(F) 931.657.3108 >
