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Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin (i.imgur.com)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You'll be shocked to learn that the distance in Kelvin is also adjusted to water "chemistry", albeit changing the aggregate state seems more physics to me, since no molceules are reacting with each other.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankfully that has been redefined using the Boltzmann constant, so now anyone in the universe can agree on °C and K without needing to measure any Vienna standard ocean water.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I was going to make a joke about how Austria is landlocked, how did we come up with the idea of making an ocean water standard.

Apparently the IAEA which is headquartered here set that standard, for anyone else curious.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't change the aggregate state of a single molecule, or how do you mean that? Excluding plasma.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can of a lot of molecules though. and tgat is classically "physics" rather than "chemistry". Classical chemistry is reactiona between atoms or molecules to form new ones.

If you get deeper into it, the lines between chemistry and physics blur anyways.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, now I understand your previous comment. My reading error, thanks.