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I BELIEVE Mr. Le Fevre's objections are due to the long-term habits of considering temperature measured by a degree (centigrade, Celsius, Kelvin, Fahrenheit, Rankine, etc.); hence, he feels it is necessary that the temperature should have some type of unit name. There is, of course, nothing wrong with this since, for example, we call the unit of energy, newton-metre, a joule, and power a newton-metre/second or joule/second, a watt. I am only proposing that the temperature be called by what it actually represents, that is a joule/kilomole, in the same manner that pressure is a newton/square metre.
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GEORGIAN, J. The Temperature Scale. Nature 203, 1158 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2031158b0
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