Word: fahrenheit
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Cold rubber (so called because it is cooked at 41° Fahrenheit, compared to 122° for regular synthetic) has been the sensation of the U.S. synthetic industry. Researchers first produced it during World War II. Because cold rubber is made at a lower temperature, it has a longer molecule which fits it to outwear natural rubber by as much...
...soon as the temperature creeps over 32 degrees Fahrenheit at winter's end Love shunts those still with him out into the open air and onto the open water. "It's the miles of rowing we get in before the season starts, not the time we spend, that determines if our team is ready when the season starts," Love explained...
...researchers had collared a few random facts, for what they might be worth. The cold virus can stand a lot of cold: it survived temperatures as low as -94° Fahrenheit. The virus' diameter is estimated to be one ten-thousandth of a millimeter (about the size of the influenza virus...
...purchasers-laboratory workers -prepared a Manual of Instructions for Owners of Canvas Shoes: 1) keep shoes in hermetically sealed place, preferably under glass; 2) do not wear at temperature higher than -12° Centigrade [10° Fahrenheit]; 3) best of all, don't wear them at all, as it is bad for them...
...graphite vanes were probably the V-2's weakest point. The gases racing past them at far above the speed of sound had a temperature of some 4,500° Fahrenheit. Not even graphite could take such punishment long. Many V-2 misfirings were probably due to failure of the vanes and their guiding mechanism...