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a temperature scale anchored to brine, horse blood, and one man's stubborn refusal to use round numbers
means A temperature scale on which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212, still used chiefly in the United States.
from Named for Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, an 18th-century instrument-maker of German descent who made his living blowing precise mercury thermometers. He fixed his zero at the coldest temperature he could reliably reproduce — a freezing slush of ice, water, and salt — and built upward from there, so the surname of one meticulous craftsman became the everyday word for how warm it is.
- zero point
- Set by freezing a salt-water-ice slurry
- body benchmark
- 96 was meant as human body temperature
- global outlier
- Mostly only the US still uses it
- meets celsius
- Both scales agree at minus 40 degrees
- the man
- Daniel Fahrenheit also perfected the mercury thermometer
daniel gabriel fahrenheit — polish-dutch physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and temperature scale in 1724
fahrenheit 451 — ray bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel about book burning at 451°f