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<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3486557 Grey Sh. Boltachev and Jürn W. P. Schmelzer "On the definition of temperature and its fluctuations in small systems", Journal of Chemical Physics '''133''' 134509 (2010)]</ref>. | <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3486557 Grey Sh. Boltachev and Jürn W. P. Schmelzer "On the definition of temperature and its fluctuations in small systems", Journal of Chemical Physics '''133''' 134509 (2010)]</ref>. | ||
==Temperature scale== | ==Temperature scale== | ||
Temperature has the SI units (Système International d'Unités) of ''kelvin'' (K) (named in honour of [[William Thomson]] | Temperature has the SI units (Système International d'Unités) of ''kelvin'' (K) (named in honour of [[William Thomson]] <ref>William Thomson "On an Absolute Thermometric Scale, founded on Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat, and calculated from the Results of Regnault's Experiments on the Pressure and Latent Heat of Steam", Philosophical Magazine '''October''' pp. (1848)</ref>) The kelvin is the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the [[triple point]] of [[water]]<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0026-1394/27/1/002 H. Preston-Thomas "The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90)", Metrologia '''27''' pp. 3-10 (1990)]</ref> | ||
<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0026-1394/27/2/010 H. Preston-Thomas "ERRATUM: The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90)", Metrologia '''27''' p. 107 (1990)]</ref>. | <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0026-1394/27/2/010 H. Preston-Thomas "ERRATUM: The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90)", Metrologia '''27''' p. 107 (1990)]</ref>. | ||
====Non-SI temperature scales==== | ====Non-SI temperature scales==== |