what is the difference between Celsius and Fahrenheit?

Answer 1

Two different temperature scales that only cross at -40. A Celsius degree is equal to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. The Celsius scale is based on 0 degrees being the freezing point of water and 100 degrees being the boiling point. Who the hell knows what Fahrenheit based his scale on.

Answer 2

Both scales are based on the freezing conditions of water, a very common and available liquid. Since water freezes and boils at temperatures that are rather easy to generate (even before modern refrigeration), it is the most likely substance on which to base a temperature scale.
On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees and the boiling point is 212 degrees. Zero Fahrenheit was the coldest temperature that the German-born scientist Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit could create with a mixture of ice and ordinary salt. He invented the mercury thermometer and introduced it and his scale in 1714 in Holland, where he lived most of his life.

Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, introduced his scale is 1742. For it, he used the freezing point of water as zero and the boiling point as 100. For a long time, the Celsius scale was called "centigrade." The Greek prefix "centi" means one-hundredth and each degree Celsius is one-hundredth of the way between the temperatures of freezing and boiling for water. The Celsius temperature scale is part of the "metric system" of measurement (SI) and is used throughout the world, though not yet embraced by the American public.

To convert Fahrenheit temperatures into Celsius:

Begin by subtracting 32 from the Fahrenheit number.
Divide the answer by 9.
Then multiply that answer by 5.

To convert Celsius temperatures into Fahrenheit:

Begin by multiplying the Celsius temperature by 9.
Divide the answer by 5.
Now add 32.

Answer 3

One is metric and the other is British unit for temperature.
At - 40 degree both are same. If you are an expert in maths equation you can use the formula and find the truth. The freezing point of water at normal atmospheric pressure is 0 degree in Celsius and 32 in Fahrenheit. The boiling point of water at the same condition is 100 degree in Celsius and 212 in Fahrenheit. F= Celsius X 9 /5 + 32.
For Celsius = Fahrenheit - 32 x 5 / 9.

Answer 4

A degree Celsius (°C) is a unit of temperature named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744), who first proposed a similar system in 1742. From around 1750 the scale was known as the Centigrade scale, and though it was renamed after Celsius in 1948, the older name is still in widespread use. One reason for the change was that the term centigrade was in use in continental Europe as a measure of plane angle equal to one ten-thousandth part of a right angle. Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after the German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), who proposed it in 1724. In this scale, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit (written "32 °F"), and the boiling point is 212 degrees, placing the boiling and melting points of water 180 degrees apart. Thus the unit of this scale, a degree Fahrenheit, is 5/9ths of a kelvin (which is a degree Celsius), and negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to negative 40 degrees Celsius. The Celsius scale sets 0.01 °C to be at the triple point (the temperature and pressure at which three phases [gas, liquid, and solid] of that substance may coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium) of water and a degree Celsius to be 1/273.16 of the difference in temperature between the triple point of water and absolute zero. Until 1954 the scale was defined with the freezing point of water at 0 °C and the boiling point at 100 °C at standard atmospheric pressure. This definition is still a close approximation to the modern definition.

Answer 5

The Celsius temperature scale was invented by Anders Celsius, and the zero point is the freezing point of water, and 100 degrees is the boiling point of water at standard pressure. In the Fahrenheit scale, 0 was the coldest that he could get with a mixture of ice and salt, and 100 was supposed to be the normal body temperature of a human. But he botched the measurement, and body temperature came out to be 98.6. The boiling point of water was defined to be 212 F. Which leads to the usual conversion formula: F = 9C/5 + 32.

Answer 6

Celsius:- Scale of temperature, previously called centigrade., in which the range from freezing to boiling of water is divided into 100 degrees, freezing point being 0 degree and boiling point being 100 degrees.
Fahrenheit:- Scale of temperature invented in 1714 by Gabriel Fahrenheit which was commonly used in English-speaking countries until 1970s, after which Celsius scale was generally adopted. In this scale Freezing point of water is 32 degrees and boiling point of water is 212 degrees. 100 divisions on celsius scale = 180 divisions on Fahrenheit scale
F=(Cx9/5)+32

Answer 7

Temperature in farenheit F = 9/5 C + 32 . So if it is 0 degrees Celsius , it is 32 degrees in Farenheit.
An Average Human Body Temperature is 98.4 degrees Farenheit which is roughly 37.6 degrees Celsius . Both are different units of Temperature Measurement . But I think Celsius is a Metric Unit like Metres for Length . Farenheit Temperatures are more commonly used in North America and to some extent in UK.

Answer 8

Celsius n Fahrenheit are both the units of measuring the Temperature. Celsius is larger the Fahrenheit as 1Celsius = 32 Fahrenheit.Celsius is used for major activities such as in industries, laboratories, furnances etc, where a large change in temperature is requried. Fahrenheit is mainly used to measure very small rise in temperature, such as in our body, the rise and fall in our is measured in Fahrenheit.

Answer 9

32 degrees. Freezing is 32 degrees Fahrenheit and 0 (zero) degrees Celsius. 32 degrees Celsius is a nice 64 degrees Fahrenheit.

Answer 10

Celsius is the metric measurement for temperature it is used in almost every country in the world except the U.S. and like 2 others, it was based off of water freezes at 0 and boils at 100. Fahrenheit is the American measurement, it was based off of the coldest day (0) and the hottest day (100) of the year in the climate which the scientist who invented it (Fahrenheit) lived.
to convert from c to f add 40 multiply by 1.8 and subtract 40.
to convert from f to c add 40 divide by 1.8 and subtract 40.