• idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Everyone forgets about the most important and sane scale ever created, the Réaumur scale.

    As it should be:

    • 0°C=0°Ré
    • 100°C=80°Ré.

    Edit: for the love of god, it’s a meme community. Of course it’s not better. I hoped that we don’t have to use the terrible /s bullshit here. ohmygod people, think for a second.

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      1 year ago

      Why is 80 better than 100?

      Edit: OK so it was originally using thermometers with alcohol that would boil at 80 but when thermometer makers switched to other liquids they kept the boiling point the same but for water instead…

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      1 year ago

      Why most sane?

      The Réaumur scale (French pronunciation: ​[ʁeomy(ː)ʁ]; °Ré, °Re, °r), also known as the “octogesimal division”,[1] is a temperature scale for which the melting and boiling points of water are defined as 0 and 80 degrees respectively.

      80 degrees is not the boiling temperature of water everywhere due to pressure differences. This means it doesn’t have it’s “superior” meaning everywhere.