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A thermometer is placed in water in order to measure the water temperature. What would cause the liquid in the thermometer to drop?
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Water Temperaure cools
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What change takes place in the liquid inside a thermometer when it is placed into somthing cold?
The liquid inside the thermometer "contracts" when it is placed into something cold. This means that it decreases in volume and increases in density. This is the reason that the thermometer can measure heat: the volume of the liquid inside the thermometer changes as a function of heat, and the amount of liquid in the "tube" of the thermometer changes as a function of volume. Because of this relationship, the level of the liquid in the tube of the thermometer changes as a function of heat.
What is the purpose of a clinical thermometer?
A clinical thermometer is used to measure the body temperature. It is usually placed under the tongue, armpit, or rectum. Under the tongue is normally where it's placed.
What are the advantages of a liquid in glass thermometer?
When the glass thermometer is in contact with a warmer object, conduction will cause the galss bulb to warm. This will cause the liquid inside the bulb to warm and, as a result, to expand. Since this liquid has nowhere else to go, it will expand into the capillary at the end of the bulb. The capillary is placed next to a graduate scale which is calibrated to give the temperature.
Why are thermometer placed in armpit in getting body thermometer?
There are four ways to get someones temperature: orally (by mouth), axillary (armpit), rectally or they can stick a thermometer in your ear. Axillary is the least accurate but sometimes is the only way to get a persons temperature.
If thermometer is placed in sun light then which thing it will read the temperature of air or of sun or surrounding?
surroundings
How does an ear thermometer measure the temperature?
An ear thermometer should be placed carefully in an ear to measure the temperature. The temperature is then taken by an infrared mechanism in the thermometer.
What changes takes place in the liquid inside a thermometer when the thermometer is placed into something hot?
The liquid in thermometers expands when temperature increases (and contracts when temperature decreases). When it expands, the only place for it to expand 'to' is up the thermometer (into the empty space above it).
What change takes place in the liquid inside a thermometer when it is placed into somthing cold?
The liquid inside the thermometer "contracts" when it is placed into something cold. This means that it decreases in volume and increases in density. This is the reason that the thermometer can measure heat: the volume of the liquid inside the thermometer changes as a function of heat, and the amount of liquid in the "tube" of the thermometer changes as a function of volume. Because of this relationship, the level of the liquid in the tube of the thermometer changes as a function of heat.
What is the purpose of a clinical thermometer?
A clinical thermometer is used to measure the body temperature. It is usually placed under the tongue, armpit, or rectum. Under the tongue is normally where it's placed.
When thermometer is laid ouside the sun does it measure suns temperature or air temperature?
If a thermometer is laid out in direct sunlight, it will not measure the temperature of the air surrounding it. It will measure the temperature of the heat directly reaching it.
What change takes place in the liquid inside a thermometer when the thermometer is placed into something cold?
The liquid in thermometers contracts when placed in something cold (and expands when placed in something hot.)
What is the correct temperature of a whole turkey when thermometer placed in breast?
165
How is accuracy of a thermometer improved?
A Thermometer's accuracy can be improved if it is placed in an area where there is not an object that touches it that can influence a temperature shift.
Where should a thermometer be placed in a beaker?
Hold it by the top or use a clamp. But make sure before you take the temperature you stir the liquid around in the beaker first and that you do not let it touch the bottom of the beaker as the glass will be hotter than your liquid.
Where is a thermometer normally placed in a house?
A thermostat for heating or a thermometer for air temperature is typically placed on an inside wall (not outside wall), and away from heating vents or direct sunlight.
Where should a thermometer be placed to get the real temperature outside?
On a wall that faces north, which is largely in the shade. An outdoor thermometer placed anywhere that sunlight can fall directly on it will be wildly inaccurate.
What are the advantages of a liquid in glass thermometer?
When the glass thermometer is in contact with a warmer object, conduction will cause the galss bulb to warm. This will cause the liquid inside the bulb to warm and, as a result, to expand. Since this liquid has nowhere else to go, it will expand into the capillary at the end of the bulb. The capillary is placed next to a graduate scale which is calibrated to give the temperature.
