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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're both calibrated against a stupid wet molecule that carbon based life on this planet is addicted to.

Introducing: the Nihon. 0Nh is the freezing point of Nihonium at 1 bar pressure, and 100Nh is the boiling point. Well, theoretical freezing and boiling points. Nihonium is one of those elements that doesn't stick around long enough to be studied. But we thought really hard about it, did some shit with particle accelerators, and we're pretty sure these numbers are good.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

The bar is defined to be close to the atmospheric pressure of one random planet called earth, why choose that as your pressure unit?