Tournicoti
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Temperature scales when you don't have any banana.
Anders Celsius (Sweden 1701-1744), the temperature scale should be defined by:
- 0°c = the freezing point of water at sea level
- 100°c = the boiling point of water at sea level
Note that his original scale was 100°c for the freezing point and 0°c for the boiling point and has been quickly reversed for obvious practical reasons.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (Poland- Netherlands 1686-1736), the temperature scale should be defined by:
- 0F = the coldest temperature of the 1708/09 winter in Dantzig
- 100F = the heat of a horse's blood
Celsius is now a SI (International System of Units) derived unit. Kelvin is the SI main unit and 0K = -273,15°c with 1°c of temp. difference = 1K.Fahrenheit is still used in Myanmar, Liberia, Belize and some others exotic countries ;-)
Next post: some countries use a weird length system based on the length of body parts. Some says they have to measure things by cutting 12 people's thumb in exchange of a feet. How barbaric! They even use another weird system for volumes and need a big computer and highly trained scientists to convert a squared container of water into its volume.
TLDR: fun with science.
Sauces: Instagram and Facebook accounts of Anders and Daniel.
JohnMagneTrane
Update: "the United States, Belize, Palau, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands". Liberia and Burma use Celcius, (Altho not Metric).
Pudgychihuahua
Fahrenheit seems weird, because it wasn't originally defined as a 100 degree scale and it still isn't, horse blood being at 100F is pure (1/
Pudgychihuahua
coincidence. Fahrenheit was originally a 60 degree scale that got scale upward for reasons I don't really know, but if you want to know (2/
Pudgychihuahua
how Fahrenheit came to be what it is today, this video sums it up pretty well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgrXd0NM2y8 as sources too.
AwkwardKeming
As an American, I wish we used metric and C.