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Fahrenheit temperature scale

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fahrenheit temperature scale , temperature scale in which the temperature difference between two reference temperatures, the melting and boiling points of water, is divided into 180 equal intervals called degrees. The freezing point is taken as 32°F and the boiling point as 212°F. The scale was established by the German-Dutch physicist Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in 1724. William John Macquorn Rankine used it as the basis of his absolute temperature scale, now called the Rankine temperature scale , in 1859. Although the Fahrenheit scale was formerly used widely in English-speaking... Read more
Fahrenheit temperature scale
World Encyclopedia Fahrenheit temperature scale System for measuring temperature based on the freezing point of ... replaced in Britain by Celsius , Fahrenheit is still used in the USA for nonscientific measurements. Fahrenheit is converted to Celsius by subtracting ... Read more
Rankine temperature scale
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition temperature scale having an ... below which temperatures do not exist ... used by the Fahrenheit temperature scale . Absolute ... Ra, is the temperature at which ... corresponds to a temperature of -459.67 ... size as the Fahrenheit degree, the ... respectively. The ... Read more

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