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   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   The Doctor  wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > Stefan Ram  wrote:   
   > >doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote or quoted:   
   > >>In article <1rnygoz.1e95pzz18vjp88N%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl>,   
   > >>J. J. Lodder  wrote:   
   > >. . .   
   > >>>[1] Beware, Celsius is always degrees, because Celsius is a scale.   
   > >>>'Kelvin' otoh is a unit, and writing 'degree Kelvin' is an error.   
   > >   
   > >doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) writes:   
   > >>Still interchangable.   
   > >   
   > >  Among people who actually know the field, "kelvin" counts as both   
   > >  a unit and a scale. To back that up, I'm just going to quote a   
   > >  bit from the well-known online encyclopedia "Wikipedia".   
   > >   
   > >|The kelvin (symbol: K) is the base unit for temperature in   
   > >|the International System of Units (SI). The Kelvin scale is   
   > >|an absolute temperature scale that starts at the lowest   
   > >|possible temperature (absolute zero), taken to be 0 K.   
   > >Wikipedia   
   > >   
   > >   
   >   
   > We know what Kelvin is, but what about everyday people?   
      
   Is there 'a need to know'?   
      
   Jan   
      
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   BTW, if you were in the know you would have written 'a kelvin'   
   instead of 'Kelvin'.    
      
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