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Usually, thermometers are used to measure temperature.
Other usages:
1. A pendulum can be constructed from a thermometer attached to a light string by which approximate gravitational acceleration could be calculated.
2. By measuring time needed for a thermometer released from the top of a building to hit the ground, approximate height of that building could be obtained.
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What are the functions of a dry bulb thermometer?
A dry bulb thermometer is an ordinary one. It's given this name when it's used to measure air temperature. A wet bulb thermometer takes into account humidity.
How do you tell how hot or cold something is?
use a thermometer.We can feel how hot or cold something is. However, sometimes things are just too hot or cold for us to feel safely. At other times we need to know exactly how hot or cold something is. When we need to measure temperature correctly we need to use an instrument called a thermometer. This measures temperature in degrees Celsius [sometimes called centigrade] or degrees Fahrenheit. There are different types of thermometers for different situations. A medical thermometer, for example, needs to be very accurate. It measures in fractions of degrees. When we are ill, even tiny changes in temperature are important. Some thermometers use a liquid that moves up a very fine glass tube. Most room thermometers, and outdoor thermometers are like this. The liquid is either mercury [ which is poisonous] or coloured alcohol. As liquids get warmer they expand [get bigger], and move up the tube. Water expands too, but not as much as alcohol and mercury. Thermometers that might be used by small children are not made of glass. They use a digital display which lights up the temperature. Inside the displays are chemicals that change colour according to the temperature.
What are the functions of sixs maximum and minumun thermometer?
A Six's maximum and minimum thermometer is designed to measure and record the highest and lowest temperatures reached over a certain period. The two parallel scales on the thermometer show the readings and can be reset manually. This thermometer is commonly used in meteorology and greenhouse monitoring to track temperature fluctuations.
How mercury functions in a thermometer?
Mercury, like most substances, expands when it gets hotter and contracts when it gets colder. A mercury thermometer is designed so that the volume of the mercury can be accurately observed, as the mercury rises or falls in a marked column.
What are the types of thermometer?
Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin.
Origin of the word thermometer?
Thermometer
How can you measure a body temperature?
What kind of thermometer you use to measure the body temperature
A device used to display the temperature?
a thermometer thermometer a thermometer
What is the plural of thermometer?
The plural of thermometer is thermometers.
Can you use the word thermometer in sentence?
The thermometer is broken.Put the thermometer under your tongue.
Different types of thermometers?
Celsius and Fahrenheit Thermometers Clinical Thermometers Ear (Tympanic) thermometers Pacifier Thermometers Underarm or Oral Thermometers Food Thermometers Outdoor Thermometers Mechanism of Different Types of Thermometers Mercury and Alcohol Thermometers Digital Thermometers Alcohol thermometer Beckmann differential thermometer Bi-metal mechanical thermometer Electrical resistance thermometer Galileo thermometer Infrared thermometer Liquid Crystal Thermometer Medical thermometer (e.g. oral thermometer, rectal thermometer, basal thermometer) Mercury-in-glass thermometer
Which apparatus is more accurate clinical thermometer or laboratory thermometer?
Lab thermometer.
