A Conversation for Temperature Scales
Boiling Freezing
Caveman, Evil Unix Sysadmin, betting shop operative, and SuDoku addict (Its an odd mix, but someone has to do it) Started conversation Jun 7, 2003
> It was based upon two pre-set temperatures:
> 100° being the freezing point of water.
> 0° being the boiling point of water at standard atmospheric pressure.
Methinks someone has goofed bigtime.
Well done, incedentally, pointing out that the boiling point of a liquid depends on the atmospheric pressure. However, a big nil out of ten for getting freezing and boiling points confused.
For the physics addicts out there.. A liquid boils when it's saturated vapour pressure equals atmospheric pressure. This is why, at low pressure, water boils at a far lower temperature than it does as 'STP' (Standard Temperature and Pressure). This is also why it's virtually impossible, sans pressure cooker, to make a decent cup of tea at the summit of mount everest, or in the vacuum of space for that matter.
Now, perhaps someone can explain why a temperature probe I'm monitoring (as part of a fridge monitoring system I've written) keeps reporting back that the temperature in the fridge is -1.0x10^30°C. I think something has borked.
Boiling Freezing
Nick Fel Posted Jun 7, 2003
>However, a big nil out of ten for getting freezing and boiling
>points confused.
if you'd read on you'd see that they were later switched
Boiling Freezing
Recumbentman Posted Jun 8, 2003
Would it be too much to request more figures in the table?
The room, blood and water-boiling points in Kelvin would be fun, and who knows, may come in handy some time (in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances)
Also fun would be boiling points of other household substances: some chosen cooking oil, alcohol . . . Also perhaps the melting point of lead, glass, steel . . . these things the idle mind delights in.
Boiling Freezing
Caveman, Evil Unix Sysadmin, betting shop operative, and SuDoku addict (Its an odd mix, but someone has to do it) Posted Jun 8, 2003
Boiling Freezing
Caveman, Evil Unix Sysadmin, betting shop operative, and SuDoku addict (Its an odd mix, but someone has to do it) Posted Jun 8, 2003
> winkeye
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Mia typo stupido also.
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- 1: Caveman, Evil Unix Sysadmin, betting shop operative, and SuDoku addict (Its an odd mix, but someone has to do it) (Jun 7, 2003)
- 2: Nick Fel (Jun 7, 2003)
- 3: Recumbentman (Jun 8, 2003)
- 4: Caveman, Evil Unix Sysadmin, betting shop operative, and SuDoku addict (Its an odd mix, but someone has to do it) (Jun 8, 2003)
- 5: Caveman, Evil Unix Sysadmin, betting shop operative, and SuDoku addict (Its an odd mix, but someone has to do it) (Jun 8, 2003)
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