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Contact [7]
3 years ago
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Where did the fahrenheit temperature scale get its name?

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1 answer:
____ [38]3 years ago
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Answer:

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Explanation:

he 18th-century German 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.

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