The above definition fixes the ratios between absolute temperatures, but it does not fix a scale for absolute temperature. For the scale, Thomson proposed to use the Celsius degree, that is, the interval between the freezing and the boiling point of water.
The above definition fixes the ratios between absolute temperatures but it does not fix a scale for absolute temperature For the scale Thomson proposed to use the Celsius degree that is the interval between the freezing and the boiling point of water