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Fahrenheit

Definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit)

Fahrenheit is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). Within this scale, the freezing of water into ice is defined at 32 degrees, while the boiling point of water is defined to be 212 degrees - on Fahrenheit's original scale the freezing point of brine was zero degrees. (Wikipedia)

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12-Nov-2012

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