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THE proposal made by Prof. J. C. Georgian1 is in my view unsatisfactory in so far as it involves not only a change of unit but a change in the definition of the quantity, temperature. Temperature is a macrophysical quantity and confusion arises if it be given a pseudomicroscopic redefinition.
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LE FEVRE, E. The Temperature Scale. Nature 203, 1158 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2031158a0
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