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The Celsius scale sets the freezing point of water as zero degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees (hence its alternative name of the centigrade scale). The Kelvin scale sets as zero the temperature at which an ideal gas would have a volume of zero, and all thermal motion ceases, so it is sometimes called absolute zero. The other fixed point is then the triple point of water, which is set at 273.16 K. The divisions of the two scales have the same magnitude.

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