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RankineRankine is a now rarely used temperature scale named after the Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed it in 1859. The symbol is R (note that this symbol is also used to stand for the Rmer and Raumur scales). Like kelvin, Rankine zero is absolute zero, but Fahrenheit degrees are used. As a result, a difference of 1R is equal to a difference of 1F, but 0R is −459.67F. The Rankine cycle is an idealised thermodynamic cycle for a steam engine, i.e. one using water as the working fluid. See also
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