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...perhaps, unfortunate that Professor McAdie has here and there given prominence to certain of the new units, such as the new Blue Hill temperature scale and the Kilobar. The sentence (p.48), "in five minutes the ballon was a mile high, the pressure 840 Kilo bars, the temperature 1060, or there had been a fall of 30 Kilograds," certainly conveys very little to the average reader unless he thinks rather intensely and makes his conversions himself before he proceeds to the next sentence. Yet professor McAdie is well-known as an ardent advocate of these new units, has fought a hard...
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