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If clusters of galaxies are self-similar and the intracluster gas is in global quasi-equilibrium with the dark matter, a tight relation between mass and X-ray temperature is expected in most cosmological models. We here calibrate this relation using 8 clusters with well-defined global temperatures measured with ASCA and masses inferred from gravitational lensing. The surface lensing masses are deprojected...