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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using alcohol in a glass thermometer?
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What is liquid-in-glass thermometer?
what do they use for the liquid in glass ball thermometer
Which thermometer is a greater health hazard if it breaks Is it the mercury in glass or alcohol in glass thermometer?
Mercury is poisonous.
What does alcohol in a thermometer rise in a result of?
The heat on the outside of the thermometer transfers to the glass which transfers to the alcohol making the alcohol expand making it rise
What is inside the glass tube from a thermometer?
either mercury or alcohol
Are alcohol thermometers better than mercury thermometers?
They both have advantages and disadvantages: A mercury-in-glass thermometer can measure high temperature (up to 357 0C, the boiling point of mercury; and its freezing point is -39 0C). An alcohol-in-glass thermometer can measure low temperature (down to -115 0C, the freezing point of alcohol; and its boiling point is 78 0C.) A mercury-in-glass thermometer can quickly response to temperature, while an alcohol-in-glass thermometer can only slowly response to temperature. However, mercury is poisonous and alcohol is NOT poisonous. Also mercury thermometers are not allowed on aircraft.
Two liquids most found in a glass thermometer?
mercury and alcohol
What is the different between clinical thermometer and liquid in glass thermometer?
a lab thermometer did not have a constriction as compared to clinical thermometer. it have a wide range of measurement and usually contains alcohol
What is in a thin glass tube with a bulb on the end that contains a liquid usually mercury or colored alcohol?
It is a glass thermometer.
What is a thin glass tube with a bulb on the end that contains a liquid usually mercury or colored alcohol?
It is a glass thermometer.
Why do we use coloured alcohol in room thermometer?
The colour makes the alcohol easier to see inside the thin glass thermometer.
What part of the thermometer has the thin est glass?
The alcohol or mercury reservoir at the bottom end.
Is a thin glass tube with a bulb on the end that contains a liquid usually mercury or colored alcohol?
Thermometer
