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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by CatMtKing on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @05:06PM (#5789096)
Seems fine to me. How would you express -10°C?
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by burke on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @05:40PM (#5789335)
Negative (or minus) ten degrees celsius.
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by danielweber on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @05:13PM (#5789142)
Ten degrees below zero celsius.
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by CatMtKing on Thursday May 30, 2013 @02:19AM (#5791201)
I would argue that the unit of measure is "degrees Celcius" rather than individually degrees or Celcius. So I would agree with either ten-below-zero degrees Celcius (which is a little awkward), minus ten degrees C, or as the author wrote it.
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