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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (25 children)

Fahrenheit: let's use "really cold weather" as zero and really hot weather as 100.

I don't really have a horse in this race but this logic doesn't seem legit to me.

How is -17°C really cold weather AND 37°C really hot weather?

One is actively trying to kill you if weren't already dead by the time the weather got that bad. The other just makes your nuts stick to your thighs -- if you're in a humid place.

I'd agree with the logic if 100F was equal to something like 65°C. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It makes no sense because that's not what the 0 of the Fahrenheit scale is. The 0 point is the coldest an ammonium chloride brine mixture can be cooled to. The 90 point was an estimated average for human body temperature (it was adjusted up over time). These were chosen because the goal of the scale was to provide a way for people to have a defined temperature scale with a range and degree size that could be reliably reproduced without passing around standardized tools. 100 is really hot because human bodies were used as a reference for the high end, but the low end has nothing to do with the human body.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

an ammonium chloride brine

At what molar concentration? Was it just as much NH4Cl as he could dissolve at ambient temperature and pressure?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

As I understand it, yes it was a saturated solution.

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