2007-03-19 15:35:19 · 9 answers · asked by rexruf 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after the German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.
In this scale (Fahrenheit), the freezing point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and the boiling point is 212 degrees, placing the boiling and freezing points of water exactly 180 degrees apart.
2007-03-19 15:45:09 · answer #1 · answered by Kodak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Fahrenheit? What do you mean? There is no such thing as "the Fahrenheit".
But if you meant "what is Fahrenheit", it is the temperature scale that most countries no longer use (except the US), invented by a scientist of the same name in 1724.
On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is set at 32 degrees, the boiling point of water is set at 212 degrees.
2007-03-19 15:40:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last name of Daniel Fahrenheit, German physicist who altered the existing temperate scale to get rid of fractional temperatures. It has noting to do with an "American thermometer" The Celsius scale came after Fahrenheit's ground breaking work in the early 1700's
2007-03-19 15:44:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fah·ren·heit
adjective
Definition:
on or of nonmetric temperature scale: using or measured on a temperature scale on which water freezes at 32° and boils at 212° under normal atmospheric conditions. In scientific and technical contexts temperatures are now usually measured in degrees Celsius instead of Fahrenheit.
See also Celsius
Symbol F
[Mid-18th century. After Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) German physicist]
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Fahrenheit scale (of or using a temperature scale)
Link below for more information, using Encarta,
2007-03-19 17:05:07 · answer #4 · answered by g p 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. A temperature scale originally set with 0 as the temperature of equal quantities of water and salt, and 100 as the temperature of a human body. This was later adjusted to have freezing of water at 32 and boiling at 212.
2007-03-19 15:39:47 · answer #5 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fahrenheit? It's just a way of measuring. Like, what are inches or what are pounds. It meaures the temperature. I don't think that it's actually something.
2007-03-19 15:40:54 · answer #6 · answered by stars 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a measurement of temperature based on the imperial scale
2007-03-19 15:38:50 · answer #7 · answered by kevin d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An American measure of temperature.
2007-03-19 15:38:09 · answer #8 · answered by LD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(C*9/5) + 32
2007-03-19 15:43:49 · answer #9 · answered by silentnonrev 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋