Talk:Réaumur scale

funny
Me and my brother agreed that this was the funniest pages on Wikipedia, simply for what it is. Zweifel 05:01, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

What is funny about it? There was a man called Reaumur who had a temperature scale named after him, like Celsius and Fahrenheit. What's funny about that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by PaulJohnMurphy (talk • contribs) 21:58, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

current usage
I added a current use of this scale that I have seen being used in Italian dairies making Parmigiano-Reggiano and Grana Padano cheeses. Here is a photo of a thermometer in action... http://photos.hhoffman.co.uk/p479045277/?photo=h109F938D#278893453 and another mention of this use I found on the web... http://secondversion.blogspot.com/2007/07/hard-to-kill.html --Hghoffman (talk) 11:51, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

alcohol or water
There seems to be a disagreement about the use of alcohol or water expanding in volume from 1000 to 1080 (freezing to boiling). Ref 2 states water but surely this ignores the fact that it contracts slightly at 4 C. The text here states alcohol.

And there is a query [why] when discussing 80 equal divisions with mercury thermometers. So they are not strictly following the water/alcohol expansion approach. I suppose that is why they aren't exact Reaumur degrees. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.215.125 (talk) 22:19, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

recent usage
I was stationed in Germany during the years 1950-1952 and saw thermometers in use that employed both Celsius and Reaumur scales. They did not appear to be ancient, either. So someone was using the Reaumur scale within living memory (mine). Bluefox79830 (talk) 23:41, 22 November 2013 Bluefox79830 (talk) 23:45, 22 November 2013 (UTC)(UTC)

quotes in literature
The article says that the Réaumur scale was mentioned in several works of fiction, I thought you might like to know that it also appears in Pere Goriot (1835), a novel by Balzac. The quotation reads, ``whereas Pere Goriot, again according to the man from the museum, permanently registered zero on the Réaumur scale.''  Cottonshirt  τ   05:16, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Unsupported claim about use of the scale in the Netherlands
I tried to add a "citation needed" tag to this article regarding the claim that the scale is used for sugar temperature in the Netherlands. I live in Holland and have never heard of such a thing, and the article has no supporting reference for this claim.

However User:Pablomartinez reverted the change, "because it did not appear constructive".

Should I just delete that specific claim or...? 2A02:6900:8804:E010:0:0:0:1E7 (talk) 15:25, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Pronunciation
According to the article, "Réaumur" is pronounced "Heomy b". Seriously? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.253 (talk) 17:59, 4 October 2021 (UTC)