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of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees
Definition that contains centigrade
- water binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
- c a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
- atmosphere a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
- atm a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
- celsius Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744)
- calorie unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure
- h2o binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
- specific heat the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance one degree centigrade
- degree celsius a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
- centigrade thermometer a thermometer calibrated in degrees centigrade