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Q: What is the mercury inside a thermometer?
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What is the liquid in the ball of the thermometer?

the liguid inside the thermometer is Mercury.


What is the liquid in thermometer's called?

Mercury the liquid inside thermometer is mercury.. but it is called thermometric liquid.


Why do you like Mercury?

i like mercury because it is inside a thermometer


What is the clear liquid inside a Galileo thermometer?

mercury


How do you get connected to the mercury?

When thermometer is kept inside the mouth


What is the silver liquid inside of a thermometer called?

Mercury


Why does the mercury in the thermometer not spill even by moving it?

If the question relates to the tendency of the mercury to stay clumped together rather than separate inside the thermometer, it's due to the high surface tension of that element. Mercury can separate inside the thermometer, but its unusual for it to do that for the stated reason.


What is inside the glass tube from a thermometer?

either mercury or alcohol


How mercury rises in thermometer by rising temp?

The mercury in the thermometer's tube expands and contracts due to the surrounding temperature. As the mercury is inside a narrow tube, it can only expand upwards, and contract downwards.


What can make a thermometer dangerous?

If the liquid inside is mercury, contact or digestion of this can be dangerous.


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.