Newtons is the most common answer. Unfortunately, this is wrong and it should be written as newtons. The Austrlian Government has created a Style Manual: for authors, editors and printers. It outlines what the current practice is in terms of writing. There are lots of boring things, about how to use a full stop or colon. However, there is a whole chapter dedicated to numbers! I've read through this and noted the important characteristics for Mathematics Teachers. For example, the raised dash for negative is no longer used - rather, the "en dash" that we use for subtraction, is used for negative numbers. The document below includes 2 pages of goodness.
By the way - the answer to the question is Celsius.
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