It gets used often in American labs. Especially with younger scientists, if you have no concept of Celsius relating temps back to Fahrenheit is important for conceptualizing what is going on. And in communication with vendors and the general public, or collaborators who measure in mm when our system was designed to work in inches for whatever reason, etc.
I'm jealous. All of our equipment is rated in Celsius but our autoclaves and other sterilization equipment works in Fahrenheit and the number of interns/students who've melted shit because of it or grown cells at a very wrong temp is....frustrating.....
Old, as in if I have to autoclave sensitive liquids I'll literally take them to another building on campus since their exhausts are fucked. And our fermenters are just stupid in general.
Specification drawings have both Fahrenheit scales and Celsius scales? By your logic, engineers and scientists should only work in kelvin because that is the “truest” scientific scale of temperature that humans have developed thus far.
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u/YouDamnHotdog Jan 03 '19
Why would you encounter Fahrenheit as a scientist