What's the difference between celsius and fahrenheit?
Celsius
Definition:
(n.) The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sensor's hysteresis is about 8 percent at 40 degrees Celsius (C) and 12 percent at 20 degrees C. The sensor has a maximal nonlinearity of 8 percent and a worst-case nonrepeatibility of 7 percent.
(2) But, as extended survival at 43 degrees Celsius depends absolutely on the ability of cells to continually synthesize HSPs, it appears that a prior heat shock as well as the recovery from protein synthesis inhibition elicits a change in the protein synthetic machinery which allows the translation of HSP mRNAs at what would otherwise be a nonpermissive temperature for protein synthesis.
(3) Yale Environment 360: It is becoming increasingly common to hear very knowledgeable people say that the possibility of holding average global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius is slipping away from us.
(4) Hypothermia of tissue is considered beneficial for the maintenance of viability of muscle in amputated limbs before surgical replantation, but it has never been established that conventional cooling in an ice bath or its equivalent (temperature of tissue, approximately 1 degree Celsius) is the optimum level of hypothermia for minimizing metabolic derangement in ischemic muscle.
(5) The same report – drawing on the full range of published science papers on the subject – points to a rise of about three-quarters of a degree celsius in the past century, with much of that warming taking place over the past few decades.
(6) The main conclusions of the review are: The levels of tracer substances in the brain tissue of conscious or anaesthetized animals can be altered by acute exposure to microwave radiation that is sufficient to raise the brain temperature by several degrees Celsius.
(7) None of these temperatures reached the level needed to induce a protective increase in blood flow (38.1 degrees Celsius).
(8) Water temperature can be maintained between 35 and 37 degrees Celsius (95-98 degrees F) to encourage mobility and relaxation and to minimize shivering.
(9) The patients in the disease group drank significantly hotter tea or coffee than the control group (medians 62 degrees and 56 degrees Celsius respectively, P less than 0.0001).
(10) However, at 5 degrees Celsius, no additional benefit was detected, and at 1 degree Celsius, there was a significant acceleration in the rates of degradation of adenosine triphosphate and phosphocreatine and in the production of lactate.
(11) The half-time for a(3) oxidation is calculated as 0.9 milliseconds at 24 Celsius.
(12) Warm and cold thresholds are measured using a forced choice method with an up-and-down-transform rule and expressed in degrees Celsius (degree C).
(13) His temperature peaked daily between 38-39 degrees Celsius for the 1st 3 days.
(14) Below him pipes of natural gas pump flames into the stack, lighting a fire that will burn day and night for 17 days to bake the bricks at 1080 degrees Celsius, sending the stench of sulphur into the air in billows of steam.
(15) For example, a concentration of .01mM gossypol incubated at 37 degrees celsius (body temperature) for 120 minutes sperm motility was 75% of the control.
(16) Measurements in 5 several Hopkins-Optics demonstrated temperatures up to 121,9 degrees Celsius.
(17) The half-time for oxidation of cytochrome b(557) in mitochondria from etiolated mung bean (Phaseolus aureus) hypocotyls is 5.8 milliseconds at 24 Celsius in the absence or presence of 0.3 mm KCN, when the oxidation is carried out by injecting a small amount of oxygenated medium into a suspension of mitochondria made anaerobic in the presence of succinate plus malonate.
(18) Even a two-degree celsius rise would be a very dangerous level of warming for coral reef ecosystems, including the Great Barrier Reef, and the people who derive benefits them,” it stated.
(19) In some cases this was equal to or exceeded 1 degree Celsius.
(20) The ambient temperature ranged from 26 to 28 degrees Celsius.
Fahrenheit
Definition:
(a.) Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale.
(n.) The Fahrenheit termometer or scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mean annual temperatures in the survey ranged from -7 degrees Centigrade (19 degrees Fahrenheit) in Alaska to 26 degrees Centigrade (79 degrees Fahrenheit) in Puerto Rico.
(2) • This article was amended on 23 November 2015to correct the conversion of temperature changes from celsius to fahrenheit
(3) She was subsequently offered leads in several films, including Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451, only for Hitchcock's people to inform them she wasn't available.
(4) Specifically, ambient temperature was directly associated with the frequency of collective violence through the mid-80s (degrees Fahrenheit).
(5) 10.14pm GMT A final round up of the weather in the mid-west from AP – which describes the forecast as "extreme": 32 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-35 Celsius) in North Dakota, and 15 below zero (-26 Celsius) in Minneapolis, Indianapolis and Chicago.
(6) Local miners descend to depths of up to 1,300 metres and often work in temperatures pushing 100 degrees fahrenheit.
(7) The report notes that New York could face average annual temperature rises of up to 5 degrees Fahrenheit by the middle of this century and by as much as 9 degrees by 2080.
(8) While it is the coldest city in North America, Yellowknife is not technically the coldest in the world – though residents will point out that you have to factor in the Wind Chill Index (35.74 + 0.6215T - 35.75[V 0.16 ] + 0.4275T[V 0.16 ], in which V is the wind speed in mph and T is the temperature in fahrenheit).
(9) With each degree of increase in temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit), from 101 degrees F (38.3 degrees C) to greater than or equal to 105 degrees F (40.6 degrees C), the risk of recurrence at one year declined, from 35 percent to 30, 26, 20, and 13 percent (P for trend = 0.024).
(10) At the height of the cold, wind chills may reach 50, 60 or even 70 below zero in fahrenheit (-45.5, 51 or even 56.7C).
(11) Physical examination revealed a normally placed urethral meatus calibrated at 21 degrees Fahrenheit.
(12) Compared to the 1981 to 2010 average, air temperatures at the 925 hPa level have been -0.5 to -2.0 degrees Celsius (-0.9 to -3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) below average over central Greenland, north of Greenland and towards the pole, and over the Canadian Archipelago.
(13) Air temperatures at the 925 hPa level were 1 to 3 degrees Celsius (2 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than average over much of the Arctic Ocean the first part of the month, in stark contrast to most of the summer when cooler temperatures dominated.
(14) Those forecast global temperatures rising between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4-6.4 Celsius) by the end of the century with the best estimate at 7.5 degrees (4 Celsius).
(15) As body temperature increased from 38 to 42 degrees Centigrade (107.6 degrees Fahrenheit), there was a systematic decrease in latency for waves III and V. An overall hyperthermia-related decrease in the wave I-V latency interval of 0.5 to 0.6 milliseconds was observed on two test dates.
(16) An average temperature increase of one degree Fahrenheit was associated with a more than 2 per cent decline in deaths from pneumonia and influenza.
(17) Temperatures ranged from 26 degrees fahrenheit below zero (minus 32C) in Walden to 13F above (minus 11C) in Cortez, with several communities on the Eastern Plains warming up to 10F (minus 12C).
(18) The report says if the world continues to spew greenhouse gases at its accelerating rate, it’s likely that by mid-century temperatures will increase by about another 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) compared to temperatures from 1986 to 2005.
(19) Typically an inverse approximately linear pattern of coronary heart disease (CHD) and of stroke mortality with temperature was seen over the greater part of the temperature range, with mortality reaching a low for days with average Fahrenheit temperatures in the 60's and 70's (15.6-26.6 C), and then rising sharply at higher temperatures.
(20) Last year's temperatures smashed through 118 years of temperature records, registering a full degree Fahrenheit hotter than the previous record.