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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit devised the Fahrenheit scale in 1724. It was the FIRST uniformly applicable temperature scale, allowing the comparison of physical and chemical reactions at varying temperatures. Numerous revisions were made to the scale, which established benchmarks for known temperatures (freezing and boiling points of water, normal human body temperature). Anders Celsius in 1742 created the centigrade or decimal form, which allows calculations to be more easily compared.
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∙ 12y agoThe design of the Fahrenheit scale uses smaller divisions. The original concept of Dr. Fahrenheit divided the scale into 100 degrees between the coldest temperature he could reliably recreate, a mixture of ice and brine, and the temperature of the human body. (He was off by a bit!)
The Celsius scale is 100 degrees between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water.
The Kelvin scale uses Celsius degrees, but is measured from "Absolute Zero", the theoretically coldest possible temperature. At zero degrees Kelvin, all molecular activity would cease. This corresponds to minus 273.15 degrees Celsius or -459.67 degrees Fahrenheit.
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∙ 7y agoThe end points of a Fahrenheit scale were arbitrary. It is claimed that the zero point on the Fahrenheit scale was based on the coldest temperature which could be reached using salt and ice. The idea was that this would avert the use of negative temperatures. Using this as a starting point, the melting point of pure ice was set at 32 deg, and since Fahrenheit wanted 180 divisions between the freezing and boiling points of water, the latter was 212 deg F. All of which led to a very clumsy set of numbers. The only redeeming feature was that the measurement unit, being 5/9 of a Celsius degree, gave more detailed numbers for weather forecasts.
The Celsius scale went from 0 to 100 degrees. Furthermore, other measurement units (Joule, for example) were linked to a Celsius degree.
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Are you more likely to swim at 30 degrees F or 30 degrees C?
You are more likely to swim at 30 degrees Celsius - it equates to 86 degrees Fahrenheit. Thirty degrees Fahrenheit is below freezing and equates to -1.1 Celsius.
Which is warmer -15 deg Celsius or -3 deg Celsius?
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What si unit you use to mesure temperature of an object?
The basic unit is Kelvin but you are more likely to use a Celsius degree. The measurement unit is the same but, whereas the Kelvin scale is absolute (it has a meaningful 0 point), the 0 on the Celsius scale is arbitrary.
Si unit of Celsius?
Celsius is not an SI unit. The SI unit for temperature is Kelvin (K). This has the same scale as Celsius, the difference is 0 K is absolute zero and not the temperature of iced water. 0 K equals -273.15C
Who discovered water boils at 212 degrees?
No-one did! A guy called Daniel Fahrenheit proposed a temperature scale where one of the reference points was the temperature of the boiling point of water which he arbitrarilly set at 212 degrees or more precisly 2120F This scale is now only used in the US the rest of us have switched to Celsius (often called centigrade) where the boiling point of water is 1000C
Why Fahrenheit scale more accurate than celsius scale?
It isn't. For the same number of significant digits. Fahrenheit can offer more resolution, but that's a different thing.
The Fahrenheit scale has a blank degree size than the Celsius scale?
same size. Between freezing water and boiling water, there are 180 Fahrenheit degrees (32 to 212) and 100 Celsius degrees (0 to 100). So Fahrenheit degrees are smaller, because it takes more of them to cover the same range of temperature. 1 Fahrenheit degree = 5/9 of a Celsius degree (0.555...) 1 Celsius degree = 1.8 Fahrenheit degrees
What is the advantage of the Celsius over the Fahrenheit scale?
It's used by more people. The degrees are the same size as kelvins.
Why do Fahrenheit sides has more numbers than the Celsius sides?
1 degree Celsius is equal to 9/5 degrees Fahrenheit. Or it is easier to think that one degree Celsius is approximately two degrees Fahrenheit. So, if one has a thermometer that reads both Fahrenheit and Celsius, one would expect about twice the range of numbers on the Fahrenheit side, as well as potentially having more numbers marked on the scale.
What is Celsius used for?
The Celsius (or Centigrade) scale is the predominant scale used to measure temperature worldwide. The United States is one of only a few countries where the Fahrenheit scale remains more common. A third scale, Kelvin, is used in some specialist applications, such as by physicists.
How many celsius in one gram?
'Celsius' is the name of a scale of temperature measurement. It has no connection at all with 'gram', any more than you could tell me your age in Fahrenheit.
Why is there a celsius temperature scale?
Because it's a lot more sensible than theantiquated Fahrenheit scale which lingers only in you guessed it, the unmetricated USA. The Celsius scale logically has zero degrees as the freezing point of pure water and 100 degrees as the boiling point.
Is Celsius more warm than Fahrenheit?
Celsius is no more or less than Fahrenheit, it is just a way of measuring temperature
Why was the Celsius scale called the centigrade scale?
Temperature is not called Fahrenheit or Celsius; temperature is measured in degrees Fahrenheit or degrees Celsius.The names Fahrenheit and Celsius are derived from the creators of the temperature scales: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit and Anders Celsius.
Do scientists typically measure temperature using the Fahrenheit scale?
More usually in the United States, but outside they mainly use Kelvin and Celsius.
Which is more accurate Celsius or Fahrenheit?
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Who was Celsius?
Anders Celsius (1701-1744) was a Swedish Astronomer who in 1742 created the Celsius temperature scale that uses 100 as the freezing point of water and 0 as the boiling point of water. After his death the scale was reversed to its modern day use of 0 as the freezing point and 100 as the boiling point. The United States uses the Fahrenheit scale created by Gabrial Fahrenheit where 32 degrees is freezing and 212 degrees is boiling.Anders Celsius was an 18th century Swedish astronomer. Please see the link for more information.
