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by celticninja 1774 days ago
Not even half way to boiling really. Although it refers to Europe, it is using farenheit as its scale, as it is a US based publication.

Although for that reason temperature measurements should always include the type for reference.

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Even with Celsius, perhaps not impossible at the right altitude, low convection, and with a dark color for better radiative absorption.
"Halfway" from where?
It's an important point that multiplying and dividing temperatures in F or C makes no sense. Some people are somehow assuming half way from freezing which is arbitrary. Would a F user assume it means half way from 32F or 0F?
Halfway from 0°C, the freezing point of water.
Freezing (0C). Halfway through the liquid phase of water. Seems like an at-least-somewhat reasonable starting point.
It also depends on the altitude. At a high enough altitude it would be boiling.
0? To 100?