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How did it manage to be off by 32 (!) for freezing, but fairly close for body temperature? I would expect a constant (or at least same ballpark) error. I imagi
by pyre 13y ago
How did it manage to be off by 32 (!) for freezing, but fairly close for body temperature? I would expect a constant (or at least same ballpark) error.
I imagine it had something to do with the medium used for the thermometer?
- stephenhuey 13y agoHe was trying to find a salt mixture that went through a phase change at 0 degrees: http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/solutions/faq/zero-fahrenheit.shtml http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/solutions/faq/z... That wasn't so reliable, and neither was using 100 for human body temperature, so when he discovered that water boiled at 212 he began calibrating with that.