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temperature scales

projected changes in mean surface temperatures

changes in global average surface temperature and sea level and Northern Hemisphere snow cover

pure water and temperature

magnetization as a function of reduced temperature

global average surface temperature

cryogenic region

Study the phenomena of ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism, and paramagnetism and also how temperature affects magnetic properties

Understand temperature, thermal energy and how temperature affects the skin

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temperature scales

projected changes in mean surface temperatures

changes in global average surface temperature and sea level and Northern Hemisphere snow cover

pure water and temperature

magnetization as a function of reduced temperature

global average surface temperature

cryogenic region

Study the phenomena of ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism, and paramagnetism and also how temperature affects magnetic properties

Understand temperature, thermal energy and how temperature affects the skin

What would happen if Earth's temperature rose by 2 °C?

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thermometer wet-bulb temperature temperature inversion lapse rate absolute zero surface temperature potential temperature thermometry mean temperature colour temperature radiation radioactivity relativity cluster isomerism phase elasticity entropy polarity symmetry

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George Dollond

British optician

P.W. Bridgman

Percy Williams Bridgman

American physicist

C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.

Sir C. Wyville Thomson

Scottish naturalist

H.L. Callendar

British scientist

Guillaume Amontons

French physicist

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