I think the brine probably froze at 0° F, which ended up correlating to 32° F for regular water. And the body temperature at 100° F ended up correlating to 212° F for water to boil. That’s the way I understand it anyway.
Fahrenheit temperature scale, scale based on 32° for the freezing point of water and 212° for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts. The 18th-century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit originally took as the zero of his scale the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture and selected the values of 30° and 90° for the freezing point of water and normal body temperature, respectively; these later were revised to 32° and 96°, but the final scale required an adjustment to 98.6° for the latter value.
kurwa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Actually it was originally based on the freezing temperature of a brine and human body temperature.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
appelkooskonfyt@lemm.ee 2 months ago
No I’m pretty sure it was crickets.
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah, so 32° is when an unknown concentration of human brine freezes, and 98.6° is the average human temperature
What am I even reading any more
Macallan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think the brine probably froze at 0° F, which ended up correlating to 32° F for regular water. And the body temperature at 100° F ended up correlating to 212° F for water to boil. That’s the way I understand it anyway.
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 2 months ago
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
What the hell was the brine that it required it to be 32° below the freezing point of water? Even salt water would have frozen by that point.
psud@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Really it was “find something that is different to the reseller scales”
kurwa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was actually based on an existing scale called the Rømer scale