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For an exact conversion between degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius, and kelvins of a specific temperature point, the following formulas can be applied. Here, f is the value in degrees Fahrenheit, c the value in degrees Celsius, and k the value in kelvins: f °F to c °C: c = f − 32 / 1.8 c °C to f °F: f = c × 1.8 + 32
* Normal human body temperature is 36.8 °C ±0.7 °C, or 98.2 °F ±1.3 °F. The commonly given value 98.6 °F is simply the exact conversion of the nineteenth-century German standard of 37 °C. Since it does not list an acceptable range, it could therefore be said to have excess (invalid) precision.
Common scales of temperature measured in degrees: Celsius (°C) Fahrenheit (°F) Rankine (°R or °Ra), which uses the Fahrenheit scale, adjusted so that 0 degrees Rankine is equal to absolute zero. Unlike the degree Fahrenheit and degree Celsius, the kelvin is no longer referred to or written as a degree (but was before 1967 [1] [2] [3]). The ...
Temperature; system unit code ... K °F °R (K F R) K °F °C (K F C) degree Celsius °C (C) °C ... (R F K) °R °F °C (R F C) degree Fahrenheit °F (F)
300 years ago scientist Daniel Fahrenheit invented a temperature measurement — donning his last name. Once Fahrenheit came up with the blueprint for the modern thermometer, using mercury — he ...
Most scientists measure temperature using the Celsius scale and thermodynamic temperature using the Kelvin scale, which is the Celsius scale offset so that its null point is 0 K = −273.15 °C, or absolute zero. Many engineering fields in the US, notably high-tech and US federal specifications (civil and military), also use the Kelvin and ...
This definition also precisely related the Celsius scale to the Kelvin scale, which defines the SI base unit of thermodynamic temperature with symbol K. Absolute zero, the lowest temperature possible, is defined as being exactly 0 K and −273.15 °C. Until 19 May 2019, the temperature of the triple point of water was defined as exactly 273.16 ...
[54] [5] [55] [56] The unit's symbol K is a capital letter, [39] per the SI convention to capitalize symbols of units derived from the name of a person. [57] It is common convention to capitalize Kelvin when referring to Lord Kelvin [5] or the Kelvin scale. [58] The unit symbol K is encoded in Unicode at code point U+212A K KELVIN SIGN.