Temperature is measuring how hot or cold something is, such equally the outside air temperature, your trunk temperature, temperature of water for cooking, boiling, washing, etc.

So, is it cold or hot when the temperature forecast says information technology volition be v degrees or it will be xxx degrees? What temperature does water freeze at? Or boil at? What temperature is comfortable for your living room?

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Using the modern Celsius system of temperature measurement, we can hands determine how hot or cold information technology is. Information technology was also known as Centigrade. This is because it is based on the freezing and boiling points of water with 100 degrees between those temperatures.

The main SI unit of temperature is the kelvin, which measures accented temperatures. Merely, for our everyday usage, we utilize Celsius which is directly related to kelvins. It is set up so that pure water freezes at nil degrees Celsius and boils at one hundred degrees Celsius.

This is a very easy arrangement to learn as these two marker points are and then like shooting fish in a barrel to recall:

Freezing at 0 °C

Boiling at 100 °C

And with 100 degrees between those points, nosotros can specify temperatures using 1 or two digit positive numbers. When the temperature is negative, i.due east. beneath 0 °C, and so we know that it is then cold that water will freeze. Water will e'er be ice beneath 0 °C, liquid from i to 99 °C, and steam from 100 °C up.

Hither is a tabular array showing some guidelines equally to Celsius temperatures:

Temperature °C

What might exist at this temperature

How it feels

Other points of interest

-30 (that is thirty degrees beneath zero)

Ice, freezer

Very cold if you are outside in this temperature, unbearable to most

Ice is water below zero degrees Celsius

-10

Ice

Very cold still just bearable if in lots of warm clothes

cold outside at minus 10 degrees celsius

0

Water freezes, ice melts

Cold

Typical coldest average temperature for UK in winter

4

Fridge

Cold

Water has its smallest volume at this temperature*

10

Cold

15

Absurd

20 Room indoors Warm
25 Warm room Warm to hot
UK summers are normally about 25 degrees Celsius at the most
Typical maximum temperature for British summer
thirty Hot day Feeling hot Typical temperature for hotter countries

37

Torso temperature

Very hot

This is the average human trunk temperature

xl Washing automobile setting for wearing apparel for normal wash Very hot
some parts of the world are very hot at around 40 degrees Celsius
If you are outside in this temperature y'all will experience hot, just more than so if humidity is high.
If your internal torso temperature reaches this level you are in danger of death.
50 Extremely hot Non many places get this loftier in temperature, and this heat you would need to observe shade, drink water and stay cool.
60 Washing machine setting for hot wash
washing machine would be set to 60 degrees Celsius for a hot wash
Also hot to alive in Virtually bacteria die at this temperature
90 Washing motorcar setting for hottest wash Too hot to live in Humans cannot survive such loftier temperatures
100 Water boils in the kettle

Kettle boils at 100 degrees Celsius

Water turns to steam
g Lava from a volcano

Lava is very hot at about 1000 degrees Celsius

1535 Melting bespeak of iron

Iron melts at 1535 degrees Celsius

At this temperature iron will plough into liquid grade, to be used in industrial manufacturing processes
2750 Boiling point of iron The temperature at which iron boils and vapourises

5500

Surface of the Sunday

Surface of the sun is around 5500 degrees Celsius and its core is around 15 million degrees C

15 000 000

Core of the Sunday

*Note that h2o expands as its temperature increases above 4 degrees, and as it goes colder beneath 4 degrees. Its volume will be at its smallest at 4 °C. This is important to remember when freezing h2o in the icebox or freezer, as the water will undoubtedly increase in volume as it freezes, and the colder it gets, the bigger the ice gets. So remember not to put water into a bottle that will be in the freezer for more than a infinitesimal or so, as the water inside will expand and break the bottle.

If you have to piece of work in hot conditions, here are guidelines for remainder periods needed:

Temperature

Residual Period (per 60 minutes of work)

30 to 32 ºC

10 minutes

32 to 35 ºC

xv minutes

more than than 35 ºC

at to the lowest degree thirty minutes

Remember that when you lot see a weather forecast on Boob tube, in a newspaper or on the radio, that annihilation from twenty degrees upwards is going to exist warm, higher up 25 degrees is hot, higher up 30 degrees is very hot. Below 20 is absurd, below 10 degrees is cold, and below cipher degrees means that it volition be icy outside equally the water will freeze and it will experience very cold exterior.

Kelvin (for the more than scientific amidst the states)

The kelvin (symbol: Chiliad) is the SI unit of temperature, and is i of the vii SI base units. It is divers past two facts: zero kelvin is absolute zero (when molecular motion stops), and one kelvin is the fraction i/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water (0.01 °C). The Celsius temperature scale is now defined in terms of the kelvin.

The kelvin is named after the British physicist and engineer William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. Thus we have another metric unit named later on a British person. Nigh metric units are not strange at all, unlike °F which is Foreign! The degree Celsius (°C) is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744) merely as it is at present defined in terms of the kelvin, it is more British than Fahrenheit, named afterward a German scientist.

The word kelvin as an SI unit is correctly written with a lowercase m (unless at the beginning of a sentence), and is never preceded by the words degree or degrees, or the symbol °, dissimilar Celsius. This is because Celsius is a scale of measurement, whereas the kelvin is a unit of measurement of measurement.

The freezing point of water, as nosotros know from what we read above, is 0 °C, and 0 °C = 273.15 K. For every increment by 1 °C the temperature likewise increases by 1 K. Thus 0 Chiliad = -273.15 °C, 100 Thousand = -173.fifteen °C, 273.15 K = 0 °C, and the boiling point of water is 373.15 K (100 °C).