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celsius
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a. (rfc-def) A metric temperature scale , originally defined as having the freezing point of water as 0° and its boiling point as 100°, at standard atmospheric pressure. The standardized definition has 0.01° C as the triple point of water, and a difference ...
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Celsius is a small lunar crater that is located in the rugged terrain in the southern hemisphere on the Moon 's near side. It lies less than one crater diameter to the south-southwest of the crater Zagut , and due north of Büsching . This is a heavily worn ...
Usage examples of celsius.
Brazil, with both water and air temperatures somewhere in the high twenties Celsius, very much like Rio had been in its spring.
If it had been in the high thirties Celsius well into the night, what must it be now?
It was gone in a moment, but suddenly the wind shifted direction and picked up considerably, and the temperature dropped from a tropical twenty-six degrees Celsius to perhaps no more than ten or twelve.
The air temperature felt almost chilly, although in fact it was twenty-six degrees Celsius or better.
At this point, all the water in the pot has reached at least 100 degrees Celsius, the boiling point of water at one atmosphere of pressure.
Drop the temperature by ten degrees Celsius, and you quadruple the cooking time.
The deterioration is exactly what I would predict from an increase of three degrees Celsius in storage facilities.
The final stages, from three degrees Celsius to normal body temperature, could not be rushed.
Despite the cooling breeze, it was hot -- 32 degrees Celsius -- and sweat slicked his skin within the ice suit.
And a 1200-degree Celsius autoclave for incinerating contaminated equipment and rotting specimens.
The Tyler machine was completely self-enclosed, used hot air, and could ramp from temperature to temperature, from 5 to over 100 degrees Celsius and back down again, in a few seconds.
The plans involve taking the last remaining vials--there are a couple of hundred--and inserting them in a 1200-degree Celsius incinerator.
You see, the surface of the Benguela Current is about 12 degrees Celsius just to the west of Cape Town.
Harvath alternated between staring at the temperature reading, which was now down to minus fifteen degrees Celsius, and staring out the windshield toward the far edge of the field.
He switched on the low-intensity interior lighting, adjusted the thermostat to 20 degrees Celsius and activated the sensor array.