Talk:Leiden scale
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[edit] Rubbish - Hoax
This article is just a load of rubbish. It contains mere suppostions and suggestions. It must be a hoax. Anyone who knows enough about thermometrics to know of such an obscurity would surely possess the wit to write a better article.
[edit] Joke?
Is this article a joke? It almost contains more weasel words and disclaimers than words. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 09:52, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
- There is just one Internet source available (as quoted in the article). It does sound plausible, however, so it will stay until it can be proven one way or another.
- Urhixidur 19:13, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
The source is now non-existantDannycas 21:33, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
- Fixed it to what I think is the new URI. I should note that IT sounds highly suspiscious as well, it claims that Réaumur is still used in parts of Europe!
[edit] Proposed deletion
I've looked in a variety of physics texts, and none of them mention this scale. The linked article doesn't seem to be a very authoritative source. And with all the weasel words tha article isn't worth keeping at all. Kevin 13:27, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
After seeing the comments of User:BlueGoose I did my own Google search, which yields only 11 results. I don't think that this disproves a hoax, or provides reputable sources for verification. Kevin 07:46, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Leiden not Leyden
It is the Leiden Scale not Leyden Scale. A quick search of Google, Google Books, and Google Scholar provides evidence that the Leiden scale is a temperature scale. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with the Leiden Scale, and there are insufficient resources online to immediately verify the content of this article, which is identical to a paragraph on the "Leyden scale" at Obsolete scales. As a newbie, I don't know the best way to correct this misspelled article title especially as numerous pages link to it. I would appreciate it if someone would step in and fix it. Instance 04:35, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
- Would you care to give a list of refs without the Wikipedia mirrors?
- Here's one:
- Berman, A.; Zemansky, M. W.; and Boorse, H. A.; Normal and Superconducting Heat Capacities of Lanthanum, Physical Review, Vol. 109, No. 1 (january 1958), pp. 70-76 mentions it:
- « The 1955 Leiden scale13 was used to convert helium vapor pressures into temperatures [...]
(13) H. van Dijk and M. Durieux, in Progress in Low Temperature Physics II, edited by C. J. Gorter (North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1957), p. 461. In the region of calibration the 1955 Leiden scale, TL55, differs from the Clement scale, T55E, by less than 0.004 deg. »
- This sounds more like a calibration scale, so there wouldn't be "Leiden degrees".
- Another is Grebenkemper, C. J.; and Hagen, John P.; The Dielectric Constant of Liquid Helium, Physical Review, Vol. 80, No. 1 (October 1950), pp. 89-89 :
- « The temperature scale used was the 1937 Leiden scale. »
- The accompanying diagram is labeled in "°K" (i.e., kelvins, then "degrees Kelvin").
- Urhixidur 19:49, 10 May 2007 (UTC)