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A useful habit (which I think I picked up while studying physics at sixth-form) is to describe temperature intervals in “Celsius degrees” (and specific temperatures in “degrees Celsius”).

So a temperature of 43 degrees Celsius is 18 Celsius degrees hotter than 25 degrees Celsius.

32 Fahrenheit degrees are equivalent to 18 Celsius degrees; but 32 degrees Fahrenheit is equivalent to 0 degrees Celsius.

(There's no real need to do this when using absolute units, but I'd still pluralise the interval and not the absolute value: 316 kelvin is 25 kelvins hotter than 291 kelvin.)



Temperature difference used to have a separate unit with the symbol ‘deg C’ in an old edition of the SI system.

Modern SI no longer bothers, and just calls the unit ‘kelvin’. Why should you?




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