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it is because they were consistent at melting and boiling point
The boiling point of water is dependent upon air pressure, and in Nepal, the high altitiude results in low air pressure.
Well, Mercury can't freeze or evaporate at the temperature recorded on a standard thermometer. If water were used in a thermometer, we wouldn't be able to record any temperatures below its freezing point (0 degrees Celsius) or above its boiling point (100 degrees Celsius. Mercury has many unique properties. It is a liquid metal and as a metal it expands when heated. When the mercury is heated it rises in the thermometer. And markings on the glass indicate the temperature. Water does not do this. But now in this Digital World mercury has been loosing its importance just because everyone wants to use Digital Technology which provide fast and accurate reading and also safe in use, no doubt mercury provides an accurate reading of temperature but it is not fast and safe as compared to Digital Thermometer.
A clinical thermometer - is designed to measure typical human temperatures. The 'normal' temperature of a human is 37 C (98.4 F). There's no point in using a thermometer that can measure a huge range - when human temperatures fall within a very narrow range.
The fulcrum is the fixed part of a lever. (the pivot point)
Upper fixed point is the temperature of pure water boiling at normal atmospheric pressure.Lower fixed point is the temperature of a mixture of pure ice and pure water at normal atmospheric pressure. Each thermometer has a scale containing an upper and lower fixed points depending on the use of this thermometer for specific measurements.
If ice contains any other dissolved material, the freezing point of the mixture would be lower than the freezing point of pure water or ice.
upper fixed point is a temperature of stem from water boiling and standards atmospheric pressure lower fixed point is the temperature of pure melting ice.
it is because they were consistent at melting and boiling point
The Celsius scale is based on two fixed points: The freezing point of water at 0 degrees, and the boiling point of water at 100 degrees.
The question must be asked carefully. If the thermometer is in water ice and there is no liquid water, and there is one atmosphere of pressure, the thermometer can read anything from the freezing point of water and lower, depending on the range of the thermometer. If the thermometer is in a stable mix of water and ice, it will read the freezing point of water.
Because the boiling point of alcohol is lower than the boiling point of water.
1. The degrees are of different sizes. 2. The lower fixed point of Celsius is the freezing point of water, that of Fahrenheit is lower. Likewise the upper fixed point of Fahrenheit is quite low, but that of Celsius is higher, at the boiling point of water.
The two main fixed points in the Celsius scale are: Zero degrees the freezing point of water and 100 degrees its boiling point. Any temperature below freezing are minus values, the lowest being -273 degrees absolute zero the point where everything stops.
Temperature major through a thermometer, one is contact type thermometer another one non contact type.Non contact type thermometer known as laser thermometer. With non contact type thermometer or leaser thermometer you will read out temperature from a particular long distance without contact the particular point which temperature want to know.Contact type thermometers are glass type thermometers, analogue or digital read out type. Digital thermometer and analogue dial read out type thermometer have a sensor and that sensors must be to touch hot or cold point to read the temperature.Best use of contact type thermometer is uses full in a closed area. To know grill temperature of a slip Air Condition best use nonContact thermometer to read exact temperature.
Which thermometer is most suitable for measuring boiling point of water mercury or alcoholic thermometer
- a thermometer with mercury - a thermometer with thermoresistance