Word: kelvin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loss to account for the phrase "distortion point 310°." Does the 310° refer to angular measure and if so, is the plane of distortion horizontal or vertical? Or does it refer to temperature, and if so, is the scale Fahrenheit, Centigrade, or Kelvin? If the scale is Kelvin, we look with breathless anticipation to certain conditions to which the system must eventually be subjected...
After our prolonged vacation, we again break out the cobwebbed pen and dip it in the inks of time. So much has happened that we could almost write a history on the subject of Kelvin "Kewpie" O'Donnell alone. For instance, Kirby G. (for Gerkin) Pickle spent his last confederate dollar taking a gal home in a taxi, Napoleon "Tommy" Thomas received a picture from a Texas belle (pronounced "bell") who calls herself "the body." The Count be Wright learned how to swim (dog paddle), Rudy Trummer had a date, S.C. won the Rose Bowl...
...nadir of cold. Absolute zero is the point at which all random motions of material particles, due to heat energy, are completely stilled. It is calculated at 273.13° below zero on the centigrade scale, and it can be written as simply 0°K., meaning zero on the Kelvin or absolute scale. Scientists have never quite chilled matter to that point, and never expect to. But their approaches to it have shown them a great deal about how the laws of thermodynamics operate...