Temperature is one of the most important measures in the world. It’s obviously important in weather, but also medicine, food preparation, chemistry, manufacturing, and tons more. We take it for granted that we can buy a thermometer for practically no money and it’ll give a usable temperature (View Highlight)
Note: Modern marvel taken for granted
Due to how phase changes work in materials, water that is boiling stays at 100C until it has all converted to steam, and ice water stays at 0C until it has all frozen or all the ice melts. This property creates what are called fixed points that we can use to reference our thermometers (View Highlight)
