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What mineral makes up a thermometer?
the red part in a thermometer is mercury.
What is a digital thermometer and is it made up of?
mercury
What is the diffrerence between digital thermometer and mercury thermometer?
Digital thremometer is shows digit and run by electric or cells mercury thermometer is shows mercury up and down. when temperature low and down.
How does Mercury within a thermometer change?
The temperature in a Mercury-based thermometer is read by the level of Mercury found in the thermometer. As Mercury heats up, it expands, therefore raising the level of the Mercury of which we see as a higher temperature. On the other end, as the temperature falls, the Mercury contracts and reads at a lower temperature.
How do you safely clean up a broken thermometer?
You should avoid touching the mercury with your skin. Use a stiff card to scoop all beads into a paper towel and place them in a ziplock bag. Check the area with a flash light to be sure that you found them all. The ziplock bag can go into the garbage.
What happens to the mercury in the thermometer when the air is cool?
In a mercury thermometer, the level of mercury falls as the temperature of the air around it cools.A mercury thermometer has a bulb of mercury at the bottom and a thin tube above it with markings in Celsius degrees or Fahrenheit degrees. When the temperature warms, the mercury expands and rises up the tube. When the temperature cools, the mercury contracts and shrinks back toward the bulb at the bottom.
What do you call the thermometers with the red stuff in it?
Mercury is a silver-white to dim substance. In the event that your thermometer is loaded up with a red fluid, your thermometer contains red colored liquor or mineral spirits and not mercury.
Why is mercury used in clinical thermometer and not laboratory thermometer?
Mercury is no longer used much in thermometers due to the poisonous compounds that it forms. When I grew up, in Chemistry at school and at the doctors there were mercury thermometers and alcohol thermometers.
What causes liquid in thermometer to travel up and down in tube?
Heat causes Mercury in the thermometer to expand, where as when it is cooled, it contracts.
Why does the substance in the thermometer stem rise up?
The substance in the thermometer (traditionally mercury (Hg)) rises up because of thermal expansion. As the substance heats up, it expands.
What is the boiling point of the thermometer?
The question to ask is: What is the boiling point of mercury (as mercury is the substance within a thermometer, unless of course you are referring to the material that makes up the thermometer itself).You can simply google that.But...it's 356.7° C
Why mercury go down and up suddenly in a thermometer?
Depending on Atmospheric Pressure
