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Fahrenheit
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Fahrenheit1
Gabriel Daniel . 1686--1736, German physicist, who invented the mercury thermometer and devised the temperature scale that bears his name

Fahrenheit2
of or measured according to the Fahrenheit scale of temperature.


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The researchers calculated that in such temperature-sensitive fishes - and there might well be many more than just six genera - a rise of 7 Fahrenheit degrees predicted by some models for the end of the century would yield three males for every female, a ratio unfavorable for maintaining populations.
A complex conversion of the Celsius degrees to the Fahrenheit degrees can be easily mastered mentally in three simple steps.
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