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The true story behind the Fahrenheit zero is not known. There are two main candidates: one is that it was the lowest temperature recorded in his home town, Danzig (Gdansk). If the lowest temperature is 0 then you would not require negative numbers to record such temperatures. However, he had to be able to reproduce this temperature for calibration. So, the second story has it that this is the lowest temperature that can be attained using brine. He used ice, water and ammonium chloride.

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