Because Anders Celsius said so. He developed his scale for measuring relative temperatures by assigning the freezing and boiling points as 0 and 100 degrees and dividing the difference into 100 equal increments.
On the Celsius, or Centigrade temperature scale, freezing is 0 (zero) degrees. On the Celsius, or Centigrade temperature scale, freezing is 0 (zero) degrees.
Not sure that they are different necessarily, just different scales. The freezing and boiling points of water are the same no matter which scale is used. In degrees, the Celsius scale measures the temp at 0 degrees for freezing and 100 degrees for boiling. Farenheit scales measures the freezing point at 32 degrees and the boiling point at 212 degrees.
The scale is either Fahrenheit degrees or centigrade (Celsius, Kelvin) degrees. The Fahrenheit scale has 180 equal degrees between the freezing point of water (32°F) and the boiling point (212°F). On the Celsius scale, there are 100 equal degrees between these points (0°C to 100°C).
Carl Linneaus convinced Celsius to invert his original scale which had water's freezing point at 100 and its boiling point at 0
The ice point and steam point that you refer to are called the boiling and freezing point. Each substance has a different boiling and freezing point, though for water it is 0 degrees Celsius is freezing and 100 degrees Celsius is boiling. Or if you use Fahrenheit, it is 32 degrees Fahrenheit for freezing and 212 degrees Fahrenheit for boiling. So depending on what system of measurement you use for temperature, the number of degrees separating the boiling and freezing points of water can be 100 degrees for Celsius or 180 degrees for Fahrenheit.
Boiling Point: 100 degrees celsius Freezing Point: 0 degrees celsius
Freezing point - zero degrees Celsius Boiling point - 100 degrees Celsius
The freezing point of water on the Celsius scale is 0 degrees Celsius.
The freezing point of water on the Celsius scale is 0 degrees Celsius.
Centigrade degrees or the "Celsius" scale.
Zero degrees Celsius under normal conditions.
The freezing point of water on the Celsius scale is 0 degrees Celsius.
48 degrees above the freezing point of water on the Celsius scale is equal to 48 degrees Celsius.
0 degrees Celsius
On the Celsius, or Centigrade temperature scale, freezing is 0 (zero) degrees. On the Celsius, or Centigrade temperature scale, freezing is 0 (zero) degrees.
There are 100 degrees Celsius between the freezing point (0°C) and boiling point (100°C) on the Celsius temperature scale.
The temperature scale in which a reading of 0 degrees equals the freezing point of water is the Celsius scale. On the Celsius scale, water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees at standard atmospheric pressure.