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What is the body temperature for Echinodermata?
freezing
What specific physical phenomena is the Fahrenheit scale based on?
Fahrenheit based his original scale on the lowest temperature he could achieve with a mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride. This he defined as zero. He then set the freezing point of water at 32 and human body temperature taken orally at 96. Why these particular values? I have no idea. "But," you say, "body temperature is 98.6, not 96." That's right. It was later decided that it would be convenient if the boiling point of water were some even number of degrees higher than the freezing point. Since under the original scale it was about 180 degrees above the freezing point, it was defined as exactly 180 degrees above the freezing point, and the new definition became based on water freezing at 32 degrees and boiling at 212 degrees.
Why is the freezing point on the Fahrenheit scale 32 degrees and not 0 degrees?
It is due to the construction of the scale. The Fahrenheit scale was based on the temperature of a slurry of ammonium salts and water as zero and body temperature as 100. The scale was then divided into one hundred intervals. Body temperature was later found to be slightly less than 100 ºF. The zero of the Celsius scale was based on the freezing point of water and the hundred on the boiling point of water at one atmosphere. The scale was then divided into one hundred intervals. Body temperature is around 36.7 ºC. The magnitude of the scale intervals on these two temperature scales are different. The Kelvin scale zero is based on the theoretical value where particles have no energy. The Kelvin and Celsius scales have the same magnitude intervals or graduations.
Where lies the difference between Celsius Fahrenheit and Kelvin as to boiling and freezing point of water and body temperature?
See the link below.
Why does ice float rather than sinnk in a body of water?
Because ice has a lower density than water at the freezing/melting temperature of water and at any other temperature between 0 and about 4 degrees Celsius.
Which region of the body have the lowest skin temperature?
testicles
What is a temperature scale based on the freezing and boiling point of water?
freezing water is not good for your body , but boiling water is because , your boiling out all the bad stuff out of the water what i do is boil the water for 4-5 mins , and then , put it in the freezer , and it would be nice and cold : ) #yummy !
Who was Fahrenheit and what did he discover?
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was a German physicist who proposed the funny Fahrenheit temperature scale in 1724. The freezing point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit and the boiling point is 212 degrees Fahrenheit. That is placing the boiling and freezing points of water strange 180 degrees apart. On the other hand we got the Celsius scale: there the freezing and boiling points of water are exactly 100 degrees apart. The freezing point of water is 0 degree Celsius and the boiling point is 100 degrees Celsius. Fahrenheit based his scale on the lowest temperature he could achieve with a salt-water "slurpie", the melting point of snow, and normal body temperature. He dealt primarily with meteorlogical temperatures and was not even interested in temperatures as high as boiling water.
Why is the number 32 in the conversion formula for temperature?
When Fahrenheit devised his scale, he defined 0oF to be the freezing point of brine, 32oF to be the freezing point of water and 96oF to be normal body temperature. Water then boiled at about 212oF. The scale was later redefined to make water boil at exactly 212oF whilst leaving water freezing at 32oF (making the freezing point of brine slightly lower and normal body temperature slightly higher). The 32 is needed when converting between Celsius and Fahrenheit as Celsius defines freezing point of water at 0oC which equals 32oF on the Fahrenheit scale. The 180oF difference between freezing and boiling points of water is scaled to match the 100oC difference. Thus the conversion is: F = 180/100 C + 32 = 9/5 C + 32
What is the Fahrenheit system based on?
Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), the German physicist who proposed it in 1724. He used three reference points. The first, 0 degrees, was the lowest temperature he could obtain using a mixture of ice, water, and salt. The second was that temperature at which snow began to melt. His third point was the normal body temperature of a person, which he placed slightly incorrect at 96 degrees. He was not concerned with the boiling point as he was interested in atmospheric science, and air temperature is never that high. When his scale was adjusted so that the boiling point of water was 212 degrees, the body temperature fell to 98.6.
What warm blooded mammal can survive body temperatures below freezing?
I do not believe there is any animal that can survive when their body temp is below freezing. There are quite a few that can handle below freezing temps but their body temperature will always be much warmer than the air or water. Polar bears, seals, whales, arctic foxes etc
What temperatures define the celsius temperature scale?
the freezing point and the boiling point of water
