Celsius Temperature Quantity and Units

CelsiusTemperature is a variant of the ThermodynamicTemperature SI base quantity. Variants of the temperature quantities must be convertible into each other. Definitions are provided in namespace celsiusTemperature. The base quantity defines derived quantity type DegreeCelsiusClass and Variables CelsiusTemperature and Constant CelsiusTemperatureConstant.

The Dimension of CelsiusTemperature is $(0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0)$ .

CelsiusTemperature defines the following Unit:

DegreeCelsius; SI derived unit. In earlier publications, according to IUPAC rules [Mills/Cvitas/etal_1993], this unit must not have a prefix. Recently, this rule seems to have been relaxed, since in more recent compilations [Cohen/Cvitas/etal_2007]

The default unit is degree Celsius (^oC). The default name in the base quantity is `celcius temperature', and the default symbol is `Theta'. The derived quantity does not overwrite these values.

physicalQuantitiesTemperatureImplementation

... conversion between temperatures ... necessary routines, see also, ThermodynT.

References

[Mills/Cvitas/etal_1993] I. Mills, T. Cvitas, K. Homann, N. Kallay, and K. Kuchitsu, Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, 2rd ed., Blackwell Science, Oxford, 1993, p. 74.

[Cohen/Cvitas/etal_2007] E.R. Cohen, T. Cvitas, J.G. Frey, B. Holmström, K. Kuchitsu, R. Marquardt, I. Mills, F. Pavese, M. Quack, J. Stohner, H.L. Strauss, M. Takami, and A.J. Thor, Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, 3rd ed., Blackwell Science, Oxford, 2007, p. 91.

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