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[โ€“] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 46 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Aka a cool 272 Rankine for our US folks.

[โ€“] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

I would be willing to bet there are more people in the US using Kelvin in their jobs than Rankine.

Lb-mole? That one I'm not sure.

To me, these wanna-be scientific units are weird, like, just use metric at that point ๐Ÿ˜…

Also 1000th of an inch. Like, come on! You're just teasing us