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What does Celsius mean?

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  1. Related to 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 in temperature of 1° C corresponds to 1/273.16 of the difference in temperature between the triple point and the absolute zero.
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This scale, known as the Kelvin scale, has the same intervals as the Celsius scale.
In scientific terms, 1 calorie is a kilocalorie, which is the amount of energy required to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius.
At the end of the three-day spell that Delhiites like to describe as spring, the mercury shoots up towards the mid-40s on the Celsius scale.
Reluctantly we dragged ourselves away from bashing rock solid flowers frozen to minus 196 degrees Celsius.
The aluminum is heated to 550 degrees Celsius and must be quenched with water.
A representative estimate of the saturation adiabatic lapse rate is 6 Celsius degrees per kilometer.

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