If converting from Fahrenheit degrees to Centigrade degrees the equivalent temperature will be found in the left column, while if converting from degrees Centigrade to degrees Fahrenheit, the answer will be found in the column on the right.
The numbers in bold face type refer to the temperature either in degrees Centigrade or Fahrenheit which it is desired to convert into the other scale.
Such readings are a source of occasional errors when temperature is recorded on the Fahrenheit or the Centigrade scale.
Hann, 1901) The isotherms show the mean annual temperature in centigrade degrees.
During a residence of eighteen days we never saw the centigrade thermometer stand higher than 66 deg.
Whenever the degree of temperature is mentioned in the course of this narrative, it is according to the Centigrade scale, although it is calculated by the Réaumur thermometer, and no other, in Russia.
The milky colour of the waters warned us that we were on the eastern part of the bank; the centigradethermometer which at a distance from the bank and on the surface of the sea had for several days kept at 27 and 27.
To convert Fahrenheit into Centigrade subtract 32 and multiply by 0.
To convertCentigrade into Fahrenheit multiply by 1.
C; hence a degreeCentigrade represents 5/9 of a degree Fahrenheit.
To change Centigrade to Fahrenheit it is necessary to remember that every Fahrenheit degree is 9/5 times as large as the Centigrade and the addition of 32 deg.
However, since many of the scientific calculations are made using the Centigrade scale it is wise for the nurse to understand how to translate one to the other.
The calcium carbide required as raw material for the cyanamide manufacture is produced in the usual manner by heating lime and coke to a temperature of 2,500 degrees centigrade in electric furnaces of the resistance type.
There are in use three thermometer scales known as the Fahrenheit, the Centigrade or Celsius, and the Réaumur.
The discrepancy is due to the fact that there is a slight difference in the specific heat of water at 15 degrees centigrade and 62 degrees Fahrenheit.
This is termed the absolute zero, and so that we start reckoning from that point it does not matter whether the scale adopted is the Centigrade or that of Fahrenheit.
But the zero of the Centigrade scale is not the absolute zero; it only marks the freezing-point of water.
Centigrade scale; the temperature of the Earth on the absolute scale therefore should be taken as 289 deg.
Such indications are confirmed by thecentigrade alcoholmeter.
Thanks to this powerful factor, which is manageable at will, we can take directly from the apparatus alcohols marking 98 and 99 degrees by the centigrade alcoholmeter.
It had a temperature of something like forty million degree centigrade before you started working on it; and when you got done with it, it was hot.
The next table gives the Fahrenheit equivalent for every tenth degree Centigrade from absolute zero to the boiling point of water.
The centigrade thermometer is marked on the assumption that the temperatures of boiling water and freezing water are constantly the same.
Fifty degrees centigrade at high noon in the desert may be followed by ten degrees at midnight.
To get absolute temperatures from centigrade temperatures we evidently need to add 273°.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centigrade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
