Word: fahrenheit
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...freezing -- an extraordinary 0 degrees Fahrenheit -- and it's snowing, and in the language that is no longer mine, the snow is qanik -- big, almost weightless crystals falling in clumps and covering the ground with a layer of pulverized white frost. December darkness rises up from the grave...
...last June -- probably the largest volcanic explosion of the 20th century -- are starting to be felt this year. The volcano heaved 20 million tons of gas and ash into the stratosphere, where they formed a global haze that will scatter sunlight and could lower temperatures -- by half a degree Fahrenheit -- for the next three or four years. Smoke from the gulf-war fires, by contrast, never reached the stratosphere and had no measurable effect on the world's weather...
...coldest the house gets is 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Doug spends 50 dollars a year to heat his home on a half-cord of wood that is burned on the coldest winter days. Two-thirds of the heating is done by the sun, ten percent from the two pot-bellied stoves. The rest comes from "heat of occupancy": the oven, the refrigerator, light-bulbs, and people. Doug looked at the 15 of us in his living room. "Right now, all of you are giving me 100 watts," he said...
...idea behind Timberwind is simple. Just pump liquid hydrogen through a small nuclear reactor heated to several thousand degrees Fahrenheit. The liquid hydrogen is instantly converted to hydrogen gas, which then blasts out of a nozzle. The resulting thrust is two to three times as great as that generated in conventional rocket engines by the explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Much larger payloads could thus be lifted into orbit...
...problems with hot water replacement, sample temperature measurements indicate that water temperatures are as low as 60 degrees Fahrenheit in the morning and late evening, according to Crimson measurements in Weld Hall and Quincy House...