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NOW that physicists and electrical engineers have almost universally adopted the M.K.S. system of units, which system eliminates the usual conversion factors of gc and J for the force and heat units, respectively, I find that there is still one conversion factor that has not been eliminated. This is the so-called gas constant R or universal gas constant R̄. This constant arises from an incorrect selection of the temperature scale.
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GEORGIAN, J. The Temperature Scale. Nature 201, 695 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201695a0
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