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What a stupid scale
It makes no sense.
Fahrenheit proposed his temperature scale in 1724, basing it on two reference points of temperature. In his initial scale (which is not the final Fahrenheit scale), the zero point is determined by placing the thermometer in a mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride (salis Armoniaci [6]). This is a frigorific mixture which stabilizes its temperature automatically: that stable temperature was defined as 0 °F (−17.78 °C). The second point, 96 degrees, was approximately the human body's temperature (sanguine hominis sani, the blood of a healthy man).[7]
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>>78015830
what's your point?
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americans just want to be special snowflakes
that's why they won't stop killing each other with guns
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>>78015887
>americans
implying it's not the eternal anglo's fault
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>>78015830
> the zero point is determined by placing the thermometer in a mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride
sounds very logical. i deal with the mixture of ice, water and ammonium chloride all the time and can reference a zero point based on its freezing without any problem
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>>78015885
Americans want to be different, but they use a very arbitrary scale made by a German retard in his native village.
It's like if I decided to create my own temperature scale and chose for the lower defining point at 0°(my scale) to choose the temperature of my fridge and for the higher defining point the temperature of the boiling temperature of Mercure at 333° (my scale).
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