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What is the coloured substance used in thermometer?
Mercury
What material is used for thermometer?
Mercury is used in thermometers. The mercury is the red substance in the thermometer that rises when you put it in your mouth.
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 substance in a thermometer that tells us the temperature?
Mercury, like the planet
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.
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
What makes the mercury go up and down the fine tube of the thermometer?
When anything, in this case mercury, gets warmer it gets larger and vice versa, when it gets cooler it gets smaller. As the mercury gets warmer and larger it fills more of the tube and when cooler it fills less of the tube.
Why is mercury is preferred in ordinary thermometers?
To measure the temperature calibrated in the thermometer. Mercury as a liquid reacts well to temperature changes. It expands as it gets warmer, so thermometers measure the rise of the mercury to measure temperature.
What is the measurement of theormeter?
A thermometer is used to measure temperature by the movement of a substance called mercury inside a sealed tube
Why mercury is used in thermometer for indication?
Because it is just a standardised and easy way of making thermometers. You could use any substance, the pricible is the same: A substance will expand the hotter it gets. Mercury just expands a lot more than most elements and so is easier to make a thermometer.
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.
