Dan, chill a bit OK? (Pun intended). This is actually an interesting topic. My cousin who is an inorganic chemist, told me that Fahrenheit screwed up with the original 100 degrees. He had a bit of a fever the day he measured his body temperature, but Mr. Fahrenheit's 100 degrees stuck, and we ended up with a ridiculous 98.6F. Can anyone confirm this? I certainly don't remember this from my chemistry days, but then again, Fahrenheit wasn't even mentioned in my curriculum.
Remek On 3/13/07, Daniel Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Fahrenheit is not only inaccurate, it is in error. Fahrenheit originally chose 96° as human body temperature. He also wanted zero to be the coldest a salt-water mixture could be before it froze. That also proved to be in error. Thus the whole Fahrenheit scale is in error. See: http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/solutions/faq/zero-fahrenheit.shtml
