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scientist use a thermometer to read temperature
I did not understand the nurse's inquiry as to what I had done with the thermometer. Will an inquiry be necessary to find that thermometer? A silent thermometer has no inquiry.
When I got sick, I had to take my temperature using a thermometer.
The fixed error on a non-digital thermometer is 0.5oC. The percentage error is worked out by dividing 50 by the reading you have taken from the thermometer.
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Santorio wasn't the one who invented the thermometer. GALILEO GALILEI was the one who invented the Galileo thermometer and was use by the Santorio in 1612.[I HOPE THIS HELPS BECAUSE I AM DOING A RESEARCH PROJECT ON GALILEO] :]
Santorio Santorio was the first Italian to put the numerical scale on the thermometer for use of medicine in the early 16th century. his early thermometer helped tell what kind of ailness people had back in the old days.
http://wiki.answers.com/Which_Italian_inventor_invented_the_thermometerThe Italian inventor Santorio Santorio was the first to numerically scale a device that was sensitive to changing temperatures. It was made for use in medical application during the 16th century.
While the Greeks made simple thermometers (instruments for measuring temperature) as early as the first century B.C., Italian astronomer (a scientists specializing in the study of the stars, planets, and heavenly bodies) Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is credited with inventing the modern thermometer. Called an air thermometer, it was a device in which a colored liquid was driven down by the expansion of air. As the air got warmer and expanded, the liquid dropped. In 1612 Italian physician Santorio Santorio (1561-1636), a friend of Galileo, adapted the device to measure the body's change in temperature due to illness. A century later, in 1714, German physicist Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) invented the mercury (a metallic element) thermometer. Thermometers in use today, contain liquid mercury, which rises as it gets warmer. Galileo Galilei is often claimed to be the inventor of the thermometer. However the instrument he invented could not strictly be called a thermometer: to be a thermometer an instrument must measure temperature differences; Galileo's instrument did not do this, but merely indicated temperature differences.
Sir Edmond Halley - of the comet fame - was a British scientist who made a number inventions, one of which was the metal coil thermometer. It is still in use today in refrigerators, freezers, and ovens. See related link for more information.
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Who invented the thermometer?While the Greeks made simple thermometers (instruments for measuring temperature) as early as the first century B.C., Italian astronomer (a scientists specializing in the study of the stars, planets, and heavenly bodies) Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is credited with inventing the modern thermometer. Called an air thermometer, it was a device in which a colored liquid was driven down by the expansion of air. As the air got warmer and expanded, the liquid dropped. In 1612 Italian physician Santorio Santorio (1561-1636), a friend of Galileo, adapted the device to measure the body's change in temperature due to illness. A century later, in 1714, German physicist Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) invented the mercury (a metallic element) thermometer. Thermometers in use today, contain liquid mercury, which rises as it gets warmer.
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What kind of thermometer you use to measure the body temperature
Depends on the thermometer. If it's a weather thermometer, then you use it outside. If it's a body temperature thermometer, then you use it in the mouth or behind.
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Use a regular thermometer to test your body (or a child's body) for fever. Use a meat thermometer when cooking meat, and an outdoor thermometer to check the weather outside.