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Excerpt from On the Establishment of the Thermodynamic Scale of Temperature by Means of the Constant-Pressure Thermometer
The resulting value depends somewhat on the magnitude of the constant pressure and on the nature of the gas used, so that there are various constant-pressure scales.
If the thermometric gases employed be always far from condensa tion so that they follow Boyle's law approximately, all these scales are nearly identical; the numerical value assigned to any given temperature is nearly the same, no matter which scale is used. The adoption of any particular scale is arbitrary and, except in work of the highest precision, one is as good as another.
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