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What is the Fahrenheit scale?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

The temperature scale known as the Fahrenheit scale is named for Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736). Fahrenheit established a zero point (for freezing brine) and defined water's melting point (32°) and human body temperature (originally 60°). Later refinements by others altered the scale, setting body temperature near 98° and water's boiling point at 212°.

Fahrenheit wrote of working with a similar scale devised by Ole Rømer (1644-1710).
Only the US still uses the Fahrenheit scale to any great extent. The SI metric unit is the degree on the Celsius scale, which is different.

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