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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Today@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think that’s how we got fahrenheit.

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  • kurwa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Actually it was originally based on the freezing temperature of a brine and human body temperature.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit

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    • appelkooskonfyt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No I’m pretty sure it was crickets.

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    • HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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

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      • Macallan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        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.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Really it was “find something that is different to the reseller scales”

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      • kurwa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It was actually based on an existing scale called the Rømer scale

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