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[–] Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I am afraid I have to burn you back.

I speak SI, and that is actually the reason, why I questioned the metric on the right. You see, milli Electron Volt per Kelvin is neither a unit of temperature, nor does it make any other sense in this context that I am aware of.

But the thing is I just realized that there is no "Kelvin" on the right side, because the "K" in reality is a "k". Would have been clearer if they had used the subscript k~B~, as in "Boltzmann-Konstante".

Now it makes perfect sense, although it still is a somewhat weird unit to express a human body temperature in...