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14 unusual facts about Celsius


Approximation error

For example, when an absolute error in a temperature measurement given in Celsius is 1° and the true value is 2°C, the relative error is 0.5 and the percent error is 50%.

Carl von Liebermeister

"Liebermeister's rule" states that in adult febrile tachycardia, pulse-beats increase at a rate of approximately eight beats per minute to each degree Celsius.

Elephant beetle

The third and last stage, the pupal stage, lasts around 5 weeks at a temperature of 26 degrees Celsius.

High-temperature insulation wool

On account of their chemical purity and resistance to high temperatures (classification temperature >1000 °C) as well as on the basis of their use in other applications, this definition was made to differentiate aluminium silicate wools from the conventional “mineral wools”.

Lachen, Sikkim

While going in north direction you will find an old town of Thangu, in Thangu the daytime temperature is from 4 to 12 degrees Celsius (40 to 55 °F) even in the months of June and July.

Likouala Department

The variations in temperatures are in general important (24° to 25°C).

Loznani

Summers temperatures are hot, reaching 40 degrees Celsius with little rain.

Papaver orientale

Seeds are sown after the potential of frost has passed, the average temperature is approximately 21 °C and when soil has thoroughly warmed.

Pedogenesis

The rate of chemical weathering increases by 2-3 times when the temperature increases by 10 degrees Celsius.

Quindim

In any case, the mixture is poured into a greased cupcake pan, placed into another baking pan with 1–2 cm of water, and baked at 150–180 C or 350°F until a golden brown crust forms and an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Rushan, Shandong

August is the warmest month with a 24-hour average temperature of 23.5°C and January the coldest with 24-hour average temperature of 0°C.

Sahara Desert ant

While no known land animal can live permanently at a temperature over 50°C, Sahara desert ants can sustain a body temperature well above 50°C with surface temperatures of up to 70°C.

Smoked cheese

The cold-smoking method (which can take up to a month, depending on the food) smokes the food at between 20° to 30° C.

Tovar Municipality, Aragua

Colonia Tovar, at about 2,000 meters above sea level, has an annual average temperature of 16 degrees Celsius (61 degrees Fahrenheit), and at night it can drop to around 5 °C.


Anders Celsius

As the son of an astronomy professor, Nils Celsius, and the grandson of the mathematician Magnus Celsius and the astronomer Anders Spole, Celsius chose a career in science.

Backyard Babies

Their single "Minus Celsius" appears as a playable bonus track in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and "Degenerated" is available as a downloadable song for Guitar Hero World Tour.

Centigrade 232

Don Falcone took the original recording of Calvert reading his poem Celsius 232 and integrated it into the track Drive-By Poetry.

Celsius 232 is an album and a book of poems by English writer and musician Robert Calvert, recorded in 1986 and released in 2007.

Climate of Antarctica

Researchers reported December 21, 2012 in Nature Geoscience that from 1958 to 2010, the average temperature at the mile-high Byrd Station rose by 2.4 degrees Celsius, with warming fastest in its winter and spring.

Close to Critical

The book is set on the planet Tenebra, a planet of the star Altair and a world with thick atmosphere, a shifting crust, crushingly-strong gravity and surface temperatures of just over 374 degrees Celsius, close to the critical point of water.

Conqueyrac

A temperature of 44.1 degrees celsius was recorded on the 12th of August 2003 - during the 2003 European heat wave.

Matt Dickinson

In the pre-monsoon Everest season of 1996, amid the worst weather conditions on record, with Alan Hinkes, Britain's foremost high-altitude climber, Dickinson made a successful ascent of Mount Everest's notorious North Face, one of the most technically demanding climbs on the world's highest peak, beating hurricane force winds and temperatures of minus 70 degrees Celsius.

Sallie Baliunas

In January of that year the Marshall Institute published a review she had written for them, "Are Human Activities Causing Global Warming?" disputing the IPCC Second Assessment Report and arguing that "predictions of an anthropogenic global warming have been greatly exaggerated, and that the human contribution to global warming over the course of the 21st century will be less than one degree Celsius and probably only a few tenths of a degree."

Siemens mercury unit

It was defined by Werner von Siemens as the resistance of a mercury column 1 metre long and uniform 1 mm2 cross sectional area at 0 degrees Celsius.

Theory of conjoint measurement

For example, Anders Celsius defined the unit of the Celsius scale to be 1/100th of the difference in temperature between the freezing and boiling points of water at sea level.

Therma Ikarias

The three springs currently in operation in the spa town of Therma (located 3 km East of Agios Kirykos port and 12 km from the island's airport) have a water temperature ranging between 45 and 52.8 degrees celsius (113–127 Fahrenheit).

Xenon dioxide

Its structure and identity was confirmed by cooling it to −78 °C so that Raman spectroscopy could be performed before it decomposed.

Ymeria

The holotype comes from the southern slope of Mt. Celsius on Ymer Island in northeast Greenland.