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Reply to post: Re: Temperatures can soar over 400C

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, surely has no frozen water, right? Guess again: Solar winds form ice

W.S.Gosset
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Re: Temperatures can soar over 400C

Sorry jake, HildyJ's correct. The scale we use was created by a Frenchman. Jean-Pierre Christin.

The scale Celsius created was identically centigrade but inverted: water boiled at 0° and froze at 100°.

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