demax - 3-2-2008 at 17:51
What does the symbol N with a little wavy line above it refer to with regards to temperature/degrees?
-Dmax
tumadre - 3-2-2008 at 18:17
That depends on the author.
it could mean first law efficiency.
or the number of moles.
fromthe nomenclature in: Annamalai, Puri - Advanced Thermodynamics Engineering [CRC Press 2002, 800s]
MagicJigPipe - 3-2-2008 at 18:42
"ñ" is also letter in the spanish alphabet pronounced "enyay". Really it's slightly different but can't be exactly represented in the english
language.
The "sqiggly" is called a tilde.
Just so you know the most common use of this character.
ScienceGeek - 3-2-2008 at 23:44
Could also be temperature measured in Rankine or Réaumur.
The tilde above the N, however, don't make sense.
demax - 4-2-2008 at 02:00
Hmmm interesting. I came across this N in the following sentence the 'temperature is the held at 60 N for a couple of hours with external heating'.
prob just refers to 60 deg. maybe a typo.
thanks guys
Demax
chemrox - 4-2-2008 at 19:41
It might be the Newton scale.
Twospoons - 4-2-2008 at 21:07
If its on a webpage or e-document it is more likely its a character from a character set other than that which you use on your computer. Some symbols
are mapped differently in some character sets.