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Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin (i.imgur.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You'll be shocked to learn that the distance in Kelvin is also adjusted to water "chemistry", albeit changing the aggregate state seems more physics to me, since no molceules are reacting with each other.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Thankfully that has been redefined using the Boltzmann constant, so now anyone in the universe can agree on °C and K without needing to measure any Vienna standard ocean water.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can't change the aggregate state of a single molecule, or how do you mean that? Excluding plasma.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you can of a lot of molecules though. and tgat is classically "physics" rather than "chemistry". Classical chemistry is reactiona between atoms or molecules to form new ones.

If you get deeper into it, the lines between chemistry and physics blur anyways.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, now I understand your previous comment. My reading error, thanks.