The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-07
STILL CONE THE
REPLIES ON COLD
Many More Answers Are Received to
the Puzzling Question Which
Is Submitted.
WIDE VARIANCE is SHOWN
CONTEST REMAINS OPEN TO ALL
WHO WISH CHANCE.


WHO WISH CHANCE.
How cold must it be to be twice as
cold as 2 degrees (FahrenheiO above
zero?''
The time for closing The Heralds
weather contest is drawing near. Get
in your solution at once Try for that
S5
Another deluge of answers was re-
ceived yesterday by the weather editor.
These have been marked and filed. They
will be turned over to the three local
scientists who will act as judges
The judges, alone 7,, vii DECIDE &c welea
no opinion on the answers received.
! Few answers are alike There are
plenty Of figures left between the two
extreme figures submitted-1 degree
above and 200 below.
Is your estimate different Send it in!
Does it correspond with one already sub
mitted? Send it in. with your reasons
/ for arriving at your conclusion.
| Write plainly and briefly, on one SIDE
/ of the paper, and address YOUR communl-
cation to the weather editor. Don't ask
the weather bureau men. They VIII not
tell you.
Another Bunch Of Replies.
Following is another fnstaIlment of re-
]
1Z-The Weather Editor Of Herald:
My answer to your question in tOday's
Herald is as follows: Twice rs cold as 3
degrees above zero would be z degrees
Rear $50 East First South Street.
12S-Editor Herald:
| 1 hereby submit answer to your ques-
! ton of Feb. f. How cold would it be
We're it twice as cold as 2 degrees above
zerO?" Ny answer is that it would be
| 22S.6 degrees below zero, derived as fol-
! lows: Temperature is q measure of heat,
not Of cold. Cold is a condition that re-
suits from the absence of heat, and can
not be measured. Therefore, without
! changing the meaning Of the above ques-
/ ton, it could be stated thus: What tenn
! perature IS One-half as hot as degrees
| above zero? Fahrenheit viii be used as
/ the accepted scale. Thus as % degrees r
1916 degrees absolute QTOm gas laws,
2 degrees F.-4916 6egrees-30 degrees
! 46l.6 degrees absolute, and a temperature
| One-half as great as degrees F.-4616-2
-230.6 degrees absolute, and 1905 degrees
absOlute-491-6 degreeS-32 CegreeS-23J6-
22S.e degrees T. The answer IS 22S.6 de
grees below zero on the Fahrenheit scale.
w r. TRAVERS, E. NJ,
! Chief Engineers Office, o. S. 7. R r,
News Building. Salt Lake City
129-To The Herald:
One degree above is half as warm as 2
above. TherefOra I degree above is twic5
MGINNIS.
130-EditOr Herald:
| I submit the following in answer to the
/ temperature problem: Cold is a relative
| term, and heat Gin terms Of which we
must render it, is reckOned from absolute
0. or 460.6 below the zero in common use.
! 600 6x2)-4626 degrees F., temperature
given 462 6x2-925.2 degrees f. absolute
scale, 925.2-i62. 6-46A6 degrees ordinary
scale. This, Of course, is a 1916 degrees F.
F4rT1 r1,79fr
FRED s. CURTIS.
70 South Twelfth East.
131-EditOr Herald:
NJ answer TO your question How cold
must it &c to be twice as cold as . de
greeS above ZeTO?' 1 desire to submit
| the following answer: 70 degrees below
/ zero. I take Z degrees above zero as the
normal temperature. because. according
/ to the United States pharmacOpOeia Of
1900 this is the standard temperature for
the sOlubility Of substances in liquids, for
taking specific gravity and for VOlumetric
operations. Respectfully,
PAUL J. SCHREINER,
Priv. First Glass, Hospital Corps, L.
1S2-Weather Editor Salt Lake Herald:
/ In answer to the puzzle in Sundays
Herald, How cold must it be to be twice
! as cold as , degrees above ZeTO?" Answer:
| Sixty (60) degrees below zero.
MRS. A CUPIT HURLBUT,
Park City, Utah.
133-Weather Editor Herald
BY twice as cOld' L assume is meant
as would be commonly understood, with
out any scientific play on words; same as
/ we would say twice as big or twice az
long. Hence twice as cOld' as 2 degrees
/ above zero would equal . degrees below
zero, j. e., freezing point IS 81 above zerOi
? degrees above zero would be Sc degrees
Of frost; double that, or twice that, would
| be 90 degrees of frost; equal Is degrees be
/ low zero. Very truly yours,
MRS. NJ. E. KINGSFORD.
Box Is.
|134-Weather Editor, Herald:
/ Ny answer to your puZzIer in The Her
aId is IS degrees below zero. Very res
pectfully, J. II. PERRY,
Mercur, Utah.
135-Weather Editor. Salt Lake Herald:
/ COnjecturing the point which your com
mittee may figure from and taking
fumes from the Yampa smelter. which we
nave been contendlng with for the last
I ten days, as an actual basis, makes your
weather problem register 1910 degrees be-
c. NJ. wYNE.
Bingham Canyon.
I1S6-Weather Editor. Salt Lake Herald:
! Taking 3 degrees as a basis to work
from, ? degrees is 80 degrees below freez-
ing Gnd in order TO be twice as cold as 80
degrees below freezing it must be 90 de
grees below freezing or Is, degrees below
MRS. L. P. JONES,
rs X Street
I131-Weather Editor Herald:
! Now to say that 20 degrees above zere
is normal temperature, and as it grows
colder the thermometer sinks degree az
a time Now if the thermometer sinks
to degrees above zero and as it grows
colder it would continue to sink So, now,
lif the thermometer sinks to ? degrees 3
above Zero and continued to sink it :
4 would be twice as cold when it reached 90
degrees below zero.
EDWARD W. APPELLs
I1SS-Weather Editor, Herald:
After reading the various answers to