...to adopt. (17.) The division most in use in this country is that of Fahrenheit, which places 180° between the melting point of ice and the boiling point of water. The former is marked 32°, which was estimated by degrees of the same magnitude, counted from the greatest...

...adopted by all European nations. It is the method of the learned Swede, Celsius, who divides the interval between the melting point of ice, and the boiling point of water,* into 100 parts instead of 80, so that 50° of heat on this scale correspond to 40° R. and 122° F.,...

...mercury measuring the increase or diminution of temperature. The space which the mercury traverses between the melting point of ice and the boiling point of water is divided into 180 degrees, or parts, in English thermometers; and into 100 parts in the thermometers...

...bulk '003665. 10. In England and America, Fahrenheit's scale is principally employed ; the interval between the melting point of ice and the boiling point of water, according to this scale, is divided into 180 degrees ; 32° on this scale is the temperature at which...

...mercury measuring the increase or diminution of temperature. The space which the mercury traverses between the melting point of ice and the boiling point of water is divided into 180 degrees, or parts, in English thermometers; and into 100 parts in the thermometers...

...Centigrade, Fahrenheit, and Reaumur. They differ only in the graduation of their scales. The difference between the melting point of ice and the boiling point of water is 100- Centigrade, 212° Fahrenheit, 80° Reaumur. Hence 5° C. = 9° F. = 4° R. To change C.° to...

...-005°* ; the extrapolation from 100C-300° may be in * The fundamental subdivision of the interval between the melting point of ice and the boiling point of water by means of the expansion of hydrogen was undertaken with great care by the Bureau International des...

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...the same amount of heat absorbed, regardless of its temperature. Let this scale have ISO divisions between the melting point of ice and the boiling point of water ; then, since the efficiency of the perfect elementary engine worked between these temperatures is...