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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krensky" data-source="post: 4741478" data-attributes="member: 30936">0 is the stable temperature that a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride. The brine in question is frigorific. 32 is the temperature that ice and water sit at, also a frigorific mixture. 96 was human body temperature. The numbers were set after the level they set the thermometer was determined, and primarily chosen to be easy to mark on a scale by bisection. Later on someone noticed that water boils close to 180 degrees higher then it freezes, so the scale was rejiggered to make it 212. Why this precise methodology was chose, I'm not sure since neither of the men who used the brine methodology explained the reason, as far as I know. Likely though, they were points the men in question could be confident it being stable.You'd think that would have happened. It hasn't though. Most things sold internationally are either sold in metric, or they're sold in industry specific amounts.</blockquote>