celsius vs fahrenheit
Definitions
noun
- Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744)
Examples
If such a transistor is cooled to just above absolute zero, -273 degrees Celsius, and is exposed to a magnetic field a million times stronger than that of the earth, the remarkable phenomenon discovered by Störmer and Tsui sixteen years ago appears.
The probe will hit the coldest layer of the atmosphere, the tropopause, at about 28 miles, where expected temperatures hover around minus 390 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 degrees Celsius).
It went down to minus 20 degrees celsius last night.
Definitions
noun
- German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)
adjective
- of or relating to a temperature scale proposed by the inventor of the mercury thermometer
Examples
Baffler editors have called commodification of dissent stretches back to Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and is alive and well in what he calls the "alienation market" in which films like Fahrenheit 9 / 11 either already have or are destined to make bundles (relatively speaking, of course).
He may have misspoke, or thinking in Fahrenheit terms multiplied by the compression to get the geothermal energy available with current technology.
The probe will hit the coldest layer of the atmosphere, the tropopause, at about 28 miles, where expected temperatures hover around minus 390 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 degrees Celsius).
