Everything about The Newton Scale totally explained
The
Newton scale is a
temperature scale devised by
Isaac Newton around
1700. Applying his mind to the problem of
heat, he elaborated a first qualitative temperature scale, comprising about twenty reference points ranging from "cold air in winter" to "glowing coals in the kitchen fire". This approach was rather crude and problematic, so Newton quickly became dissatisfied with it. He knew that most substances expand when heated, so he took a container of
linseed oil and measured its change of
volume against his reference points. He found that the volume of linseed oil grew by 7.25% when heated from the temperature of melting
snow to that of boiling water.
After a while, he defined the "zeroth degree of heat" as melting snow and "33 degrees of heat" as boiling water. His scale is thus a precursor of the
Celsius scale, being defined by the same temperature references. Indeed it's likely that Celsius knew about the Newton scale when he invented his. Newton called his instrument a "
thermometer".
Thus the
unit of this scale, the Newton degree, equals
of a
Kelvin or a degree
Celsius and has the same zero as the Celsius scale.
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