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[–] Today@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (9 children) I think that's how we got fahrenheit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] kurwa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (8 children) Actually it was originally based on the freezing temperature of a brine and human body temperature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] appelkooskonfyt@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago No I'm pretty sure it was crickets. permalink fedilink source parent [–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children) Ah, so 32° is when an unknown concentration of human brine freezes, and 98.6° is the average human temperature What am I even reading any more permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Macallan@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (3 children) I think the brine probably froze at 0° F, which ended up correlating to 32° F for regular water. And the body temperature at 100° F ended up correlating to 212° F for water to boil. That's the way I understand it anyway. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Fahrenheit temperature scale, scale based on 32° for the freezing point of water and 212° for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts. The 18th-century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit originally took as the zero of his scale the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture and selected the values of 30° and 90° for the freezing point of water and normal body temperature, respectively; these later were revised to 32° and 96°, but the final scale required an adjustment to 98.6° for the latter value. permalink fedilink source parent [–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) What the hell was the brine that it required it to be 32° below the freezing point of water? Even salt water would have frozen by that point. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Macallan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Far fewer people know that 0° and 100° in Fahrenheit also correspond to specific real-world values. 0°F corresponds to a temperature where a brine is made of equal parts ice, water, and ammonium chloride. Such a brine, interestingly, is a frigorific mixture, meaning that it stabilizes to a specific temperature regardless of the temperature that each component started at. Thus, it makes for a really nice laboratory-stable definition of a temperature. Similarly, 100°F was initially set at "blood heat" temperature, or the human body temperature. While not super precise, it was a fairly stable value. As good as anything in the early 1700s. Source from a quick Google search: https://gregable.com/2014/06/temperature-scales.html permalink fedilink source parent [–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) Really it was "find something that is different to the earlier scales" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kurwa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago It was actually based on an existing scale called the Rømer scale permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (8 children) Actually it was originally based on the freezing temperature of a brine and human body temperature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] appelkooskonfyt@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago No I'm pretty sure it was crickets. permalink fedilink source parent [–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children) Ah, so 32° is when an unknown concentration of human brine freezes, and 98.6° is the average human temperature What am I even reading any more permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Macallan@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (3 children) I think the brine probably froze at 0° F, which ended up correlating to 32° F for regular water. And the body temperature at 100° F ended up correlating to 212° F for water to boil. That's the way I understand it anyway. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Fahrenheit temperature scale, scale based on 32° for the freezing point of water and 212° for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts. The 18th-century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit originally took as the zero of his scale the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture and selected the values of 30° and 90° for the freezing point of water and normal body temperature, respectively; these later were revised to 32° and 96°, but the final scale required an adjustment to 98.6° for the latter value. permalink fedilink source parent [–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) What the hell was the brine that it required it to be 32° below the freezing point of water? Even salt water would have frozen by that point. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Macallan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Far fewer people know that 0° and 100° in Fahrenheit also correspond to specific real-world values. 0°F corresponds to a temperature where a brine is made of equal parts ice, water, and ammonium chloride. Such a brine, interestingly, is a frigorific mixture, meaning that it stabilizes to a specific temperature regardless of the temperature that each component started at. Thus, it makes for a really nice laboratory-stable definition of a temperature. Similarly, 100°F was initially set at "blood heat" temperature, or the human body temperature. While not super precise, it was a fairly stable value. As good as anything in the early 1700s. Source from a quick Google search: https://gregable.com/2014/06/temperature-scales.html permalink fedilink source parent [–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) Really it was "find something that is different to the earlier scales" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kurwa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago It was actually based on an existing scale called the Rømer scale permalink fedilink source parent
[–] appelkooskonfyt@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago No I'm pretty sure it was crickets. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children) Ah, so 32° is when an unknown concentration of human brine freezes, and 98.6° is the average human temperature What am I even reading any more permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Macallan@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (3 children) I think the brine probably froze at 0° F, which ended up correlating to 32° F for regular water. And the body temperature at 100° F ended up correlating to 212° F for water to boil. That's the way I understand it anyway. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Fahrenheit temperature scale, scale based on 32° for the freezing point of water and 212° for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts. The 18th-century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit originally took as the zero of his scale the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture and selected the values of 30° and 90° for the freezing point of water and normal body temperature, respectively; these later were revised to 32° and 96°, but the final scale required an adjustment to 98.6° for the latter value. permalink fedilink source parent [–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) What the hell was the brine that it required it to be 32° below the freezing point of water? Even salt water would have frozen by that point. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Macallan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Far fewer people know that 0° and 100° in Fahrenheit also correspond to specific real-world values. 0°F corresponds to a temperature where a brine is made of equal parts ice, water, and ammonium chloride. Such a brine, interestingly, is a frigorific mixture, meaning that it stabilizes to a specific temperature regardless of the temperature that each component started at. Thus, it makes for a really nice laboratory-stable definition of a temperature. Similarly, 100°F was initially set at "blood heat" temperature, or the human body temperature. While not super precise, it was a fairly stable value. As good as anything in the early 1700s. Source from a quick Google search: https://gregable.com/2014/06/temperature-scales.html permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Macallan@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (3 children) I think the brine probably froze at 0° F, which ended up correlating to 32° F for regular water. And the body temperature at 100° F ended up correlating to 212° F for water to boil. That's the way I understand it anyway. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Fahrenheit temperature scale, scale based on 32° for the freezing point of water and 212° for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts. The 18th-century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit originally took as the zero of his scale the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture and selected the values of 30° and 90° for the freezing point of water and normal body temperature, respectively; these later were revised to 32° and 96°, but the final scale required an adjustment to 98.6° for the latter value. permalink fedilink source parent [–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) What the hell was the brine that it required it to be 32° below the freezing point of water? Even salt water would have frozen by that point. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Macallan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Far fewer people know that 0° and 100° in Fahrenheit also correspond to specific real-world values. 0°F corresponds to a temperature where a brine is made of equal parts ice, water, and ammonium chloride. Such a brine, interestingly, is a frigorific mixture, meaning that it stabilizes to a specific temperature regardless of the temperature that each component started at. Thus, it makes for a really nice laboratory-stable definition of a temperature. Similarly, 100°F was initially set at "blood heat" temperature, or the human body temperature. While not super precise, it was a fairly stable value. As good as anything in the early 1700s. Source from a quick Google search: https://gregable.com/2014/06/temperature-scales.html permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Fahrenheit temperature scale, scale based on 32° for the freezing point of water and 212° for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts. The 18th-century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit originally took as the zero of his scale the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture and selected the values of 30° and 90° for the freezing point of water and normal body temperature, respectively; these later were revised to 32° and 96°, but the final scale required an adjustment to 98.6° for the latter value. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) What the hell was the brine that it required it to be 32° below the freezing point of water? Even salt water would have frozen by that point. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Macallan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Far fewer people know that 0° and 100° in Fahrenheit also correspond to specific real-world values. 0°F corresponds to a temperature where a brine is made of equal parts ice, water, and ammonium chloride. Such a brine, interestingly, is a frigorific mixture, meaning that it stabilizes to a specific temperature regardless of the temperature that each component started at. Thus, it makes for a really nice laboratory-stable definition of a temperature. Similarly, 100°F was initially set at "blood heat" temperature, or the human body temperature. While not super precise, it was a fairly stable value. As good as anything in the early 1700s. Source from a quick Google search: https://gregable.com/2014/06/temperature-scales.html permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Macallan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Far fewer people know that 0° and 100° in Fahrenheit also correspond to specific real-world values. 0°F corresponds to a temperature where a brine is made of equal parts ice, water, and ammonium chloride. Such a brine, interestingly, is a frigorific mixture, meaning that it stabilizes to a specific temperature regardless of the temperature that each component started at. Thus, it makes for a really nice laboratory-stable definition of a temperature. Similarly, 100°F was initially set at "blood heat" temperature, or the human body temperature. While not super precise, it was a fairly stable value. As good as anything in the early 1700s. Source from a quick Google search: https://gregable.com/2014/06/temperature-scales.html permalink fedilink source parent
[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) Really it was "find something that is different to the earlier scales" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kurwa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago It was actually based on an existing scale called the Rømer scale permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago It was actually based on an existing scale called the Rømer scale permalink fedilink source parent
