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Re: Influence of heat treatment on Lego® bricks + minifigs
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 27 Jul 2002 02:08:56 GMT
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"John Carroll" <ms06j@hotmail.com> writes:
> [snip]
> a few years ago, LEGO suggested in its catalogs that if you plan
> > on washing your elements to never go above 104 degrees Farenheit (or however
> > you spell that word). I do not know how much that is in Celsius but a 104
> > degree reading in the farenheit scale seems kind of toasty to me. Of
> > course, I personally can not confirm this but maybe you can ask that
> > question to the Great Redini because floating head people generally know
> > more than us normal people.
> > Jesse Alan Long
>
> 104 deg F is 40 deg C
Which explains why they didn't just say 100 or 105 in their literature...
> other interisting temperatures
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> Freezing: 32 deg F, 0 deg C
> boiling: 212 deg F, 100 deg C
Another fun one: -40 deg F, -40 deg C.
0 deg F is supposed to be the freezing point of North Atlantic Ocean
water (the salt causes freezing point depression by about 32 deg F).
And let's not forget: 98.6 deg F, 37.0 deg C... You ever wonder why
they always say 98.6, and not 98.7 or 98.5? Because they converted it
from Celsius (or centigrade, if you prefer)!
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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