I think the brine probably froze at 0° F, which ended up correlating to 32° F for regular water. And the body temperature at 100° F ended up correlating to 212° F for water to boil. That’s the way I understand it anyway.
Fahrenheit temperature scale, scale based on 32° for the freezing point of water and 212° for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts. The 18th-century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit originally took as the zero of his scale the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture and selected the values of 30° and 90° for the freezing point of water and normal body temperature, respectively; these later were revised to 32° and 96°, but the final scale required an adjustment to 98.6° for the latter value.
Far fewer people know that 0° and 100° in Fahrenheit also correspond to specific real-world values. 0°F corresponds to a temperature where a brine is made of equal parts ice, water, and ammonium chloride. Such a brine, interestingly, is a frigorific mixture, meaning that it stabilizes to a specific temperature regardless of the temperature that each component started at. Thus, it makes for a really nice laboratory-stable definition of a temperature. Similarly, 100°F was initially set at “blood heat” temperature, or the human body temperature. While not super precise, it was a fairly stable value. As good as anything in the early 1700s.
I think that’s how we got fahrenheit.
Actually it was originally based on the freezing temperature of a brine and human body temperature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
No I’m pretty sure it was crickets.
Really it was “find something that is different to the reseller scales”
It was actually based on an existing scale called the Rømer scale
Ah, so 32° is when an unknown concentration of human brine freezes, and 98.6° is the average human temperature
What am I even reading any more
I think the brine probably froze at 0° F, which ended up correlating to 32° F for regular water. And the body temperature at 100° F ended up correlating to 212° F for water to boil. That’s the way I understand it anyway.
What the hell was the brine that it required it to be 32° below the freezing point of water? Even salt water would have frozen by that point.
Source from a quick Google search: https://gregable.com/2014/06/temperature-scales.html