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Categories: Obsolete units of measurement, Scales of temperature, Scales in meteorology, Science and technology in France
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Reaumur scale  Réaumur scale
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A temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees WordNet 3.0
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A temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The Réaumur scale, also known as the "octogesimal division", is a temperature scale for which the melting and boiling points of water are defined as 0 and 80 degrees respectively. Wikipedia
Proposed in 1731 by de Réaumur Wikipedia Disambiguation
Temperature scale in which water freezes and boils at 0 and 80 degrees, respectively Wikidata
A temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 and the alcohol mixture expands by 8% and boils at 80. Wiktionary
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