2006-10-17 14:22:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
100 degrees Celsius if warmer. It is the boiling point of water in the standard atmosphere, or sea level and 29.92 inches of mercury pressure.
On the Fahrenheit scale, the boiling point of water is 212 degrees.
A little history can make this understandable.
Daniel Fahrenheit was the first person to use mercury in a thermometer in 1724. He wanted to avoid using the negative scale, and so chose 0 degrees as the coldest temperature he could produce in the laboratory. 0 degrees is the temperature of ice melting in a solution of common salt. This is produced with equal weights of snow and salt. Historians disagree about how the degree scale was formed. One story is he measured the temperature of blood in a healthy body to be 96 and dividing by 12 and then doubled that to 24 then to 48 and finally 96. The healthy blood temperature is now set at 98.6 degrees, although 98 degrees would probably be more accurate.
The boiling point of water at 212 degrees was later used to calibrate thermometers. The mercury thermometer can go as high as 600 degrees, where mercury boils.
Anders Celsius devised the "Centigrade" scale in 1742, where 0 is the melting point of ice and 100 is the boiling point of water and so there are 100 degrees between melting and boiling. In the Fahrenheit scale there are 180 degrees between melting and boiling.
By the way, at 5,000 feet of elevation, The boiling point of water is 203 degrees Fahrenheit.
2006-10-18 07:24:51 · answer #1 · answered by mach_92 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Celsius...
100 Celsius = 212 Fahrenheit
2006-10-17 14:49:54 · answer #2 · answered by JennyAnn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100 Celsius
2006-10-17 14:32:01 · answer #3 · answered by Cheryl E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100 C.
2006-10-17 14:29:58 · answer #4 · answered by question 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100 C.
2006-10-17 14:24:54 · answer #5 · answered by Chris M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100 C is = 212 F so it is a lot hotter than 100 F
2006-10-17 14:34:43 · answer #6 · answered by cookiedada 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100 C is equal to 212 F
There are days ansd places where the temperature reach 100 F,
but 100 C would boil water off and literally cook living organisms.
2006-10-17 14:24:27 · answer #7 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
definitely 100 celsius.
2006-10-17 14:39:56 · answer #8 · answered by stupid cupid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100 degrees Farenheit = 46.7 degrees Celcius
100 degrees Celcius = 214 degrees Farenheit
2006-10-17 17:13:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
100 C, that is boiling water temperature
100 F, you can get that temperature in the Middle East
2006-10-17 17:12:05 · answer #10 · answered by BMW M5 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋