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Fahrenheit comparison table

Subject	has absolute zero	is named after	has proposal date	has definition	has triple point of water	is a kind of	is an instance of
temperature unit	-has source: Jerrard, H.G., McNeill, D.B. 1992 Dictionary of Scientific Units, Chapman and Hall			A temperature unit is a measure of the average kinetic energy per degree of freedom of the constituent molecules.	-has source: Jerrard, H.G., McNeill, D.B. 1992 Dictionary of Scientific Units, Chapman and Hall	unit
Fahrenheit	-459.67	G. D. Fahrenheit (1686-1736)	1710	A temperature scale based on three fixed temperature points - the temperature of an ice and salt mixture, the freezing point of water and normal human temperature - which were taken to be 0, 32 and 96 respectively. It is mere coincidence that the temperature interval between the freezing (32 °F) and boiling (212 °F) points of water is 180° when expressed in the Fahrenheit scale.	32.018		temperature unit

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