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Thermometers: What's the Problem with Accuracy?
On Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 11:54:53 AM UTC-6, Bod wrote:
On 04/02/2018 17:11,
wrote:
On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 11:51:08 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote:
I've been trying to buy four refrigerator/freezer thermometers and it's
frustrating how inaccurate/inconsistent they are.
http://www.leevalley.com/us/garden/P...=2,40733,40734
As an aside, I'm surprised that the US is still using Fahrenheit instead
of the universal Centigrade.
There's only about 8 countries that still use F.
Fahrenheit remains the official scale for the following countries:
The Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Palau and the United States and
associated territories (Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands).
Canada retains it as a supplementary scale that can be used alongside
Celsius.
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Bod
Bulb type thermometers here in The U.S. have both scales printed on them and digital thermometers can switch from one to the other. It's whatever you grew up with that determines your point of view. Of course, someone working in the field of chemistry or physics is probably going to prefer the Centigrade scale. ^_^
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