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What does Kelvin stand for?

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10y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

It is named after the British physicist, Lord Kelvin, after his work on thermodynamics. A Kelvin is the basic unit of temperature based on the absolutes scale and is the standard unit for measuring temperature.

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