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Rankine scale
Rankine
is a
thermodynamic temperature
based on an
absolute scale
named after the
Glasgow University
engineer
and
physicist
William John Macquorn Rankine
, who proposed it in 1859. (The
Kelvin
scale was first proposed in 1848.)
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