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Yes.
A common alternative is coloured alcohol. But a thermometer can be made of many things. You can have one made of metal that you stick into a piece of meat that you have been cooking, to see if the temperature is hot enough inside for the meat to have been cooked.
There are also industrial theremometers that are used in furnaces. There are many ways to measure temperature.
Whatever it is made of, a thermo-meter measures thermos, [Greek for heat].
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What is a digital thermometer and is it made up of?
mercury
Is a thermometer made of the mercury element?
Yes
Is the external bulb of a thermometer also made of mercury?
The red liquid in a thermometer is Mercury, which is usually encased in a glass tube
When was the first mercury thermometer made?
The first one was made in 1714.
What is the raw experimental measurement made when using mercury thermometer?
Using a thermometer we can measure the temperature.
How are thermometer made?
It generally made using fluid which expand or contract linearly with temperature such as mercury, water or alcohol. Electronic thermometer use the relation of thermal property effect electrical conduction difference to measure temperature.
Why not mercury thermometer is used to measure temperature of hot milk?
It could be used to do this - it is capable of doing it. However, Mercury is poisonous and a mercury thermometer is made out of fragile glass. Thus the danger that the thermometer would break releasing mercury into the milk (which would be for a person to drink) means that a mercury thermomiter is not the temperature sensor to use in this instance.
The function of a Mercury thermometer?
to tell old people that have a mercury thermometer what the temperature is
What is Mercury thermometer use to measure?
A mercury thermometer is used to measure temperature.
Mention any two points of difference between a clinical thermometer and an ordinary mercury thermometer?
A clinical thermometer will offer more precise calibrated readings than a mercury thermometer. The range of measurable temperature differs between a clinical and a mercury thermometer with the mercury thermometer having the wider range.
What are thermometer made of?
Modern thermometers are made of alcohol or Mercury, and uses the Fahrenheit scale and the Celsius scale.
Who made the first mercury thermometer?
Galileo invented an air thermometer in about 1600, but changes in atmospheric pressure made accurate measurement difficult. Liquids were quickly used instead and Gabriel Fahrenheit was the first to use alcohol (1709) and mercury (1714), in a thermometer.
