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...British thermal unit, a measure of energy based on the quantity of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit...
...many grams the ingredients weigh. A miss will never be as good as a kilometer; no Texan is likely to wear a 38-liter hat. In some cases, neither form of measurement matters much. The day that hell freezes over, whether it happens in Celsius (0°) or Fahrenheit (32°), it will still rate a TIME cover...
Augusta County Hot Springs, Virginia, produces bubbling waters (112° Fahrenheit) that can be used to treat rheumatism. Says one visitor: "It smells and tastes strongly like the washings of a foul gun." Located in inaccessible mountains near the sources of the James River, the springs could once be reached only by an Indian trail, but the authorities recently raised ?900 by a lottery and cleared a coach road to nearby Jennings...
...intensely reflected by methane ice. The tests showed that Pluto is largely covered by frozen methane. They also give an idea of how cold it is on the distant planet. Methane, the basic ingredient of natural gas on earth, will not freeze unless the temperature is nearly - 300° Fahrenheit...
...Fahrenheit 451, Friday and Saturday...