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> having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost I'm no scientist, but I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees. Maybe this was a mistranslation...?
by bostonpete 14y ago
> having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost
I'm no scientist, but I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees. Maybe this was a mistranslation...?
- tjic 14y ago> I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees. Perhaps it was under 10 atmospheres of pressure? ;-)
- NiekvdMaas 14y agoYou should read that as -40 degrees - likely Celcius and not Fahrenheit you refer to. Funny thing is, -40 C = -40 F.
- asmosoinio 14y agoProbably means minus 40 degrees. Which incidentally is the same in Celcius and Fahrenheit.
- gshubert17 14y agoI've seen the phrase in a Jack London story. That would be 40 degrees below freezing. For Celsius that would be -40C since freezing is 0C. For Fahrenheit that would be -8F (32 - 40).
- danbruc 14y ago1 °C = 1.8 °F (Not really correct because this actually means a temperature difference of...)
- thetrb 14y agoTo me that reads as "-40 degrees Celsius" since in Celsius 0 degrees is exactly where water freezes.
- FireBeyond 14y agoMost likely -8F, per my comment upthread.
- danbruc 14y agoI guess they mean -40 °C (coincidently -40 °F) not +40 °F (4.4 °C).
- vividmind 14y agoI think they've meant -40 C.
- FireBeyond 14y agoI've been reading a book called "Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places " (http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Adventures-Worlds-Frozen-Places/dp/B005OHSZ2Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359499768&sr=8-1&keywords=cold http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Adventures-Worlds-Frozen-Places/d...): "One degree of frost was one degree below freezing Fahrenheit. An explorer might write in his journal of fifty degrees of frost - negative eighteen degrees Fahrenheit"
- kalleboo 14y agoFahrenheit just gets more and more confusing
- atsaloli 14y agoI'm a native Russian speaker, this means -40 Celcius. In Russian, we say "X degrees of frost" (градусов мороза) to refer to temperatures below zero Celcius.