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What physical property is being used when using a clinical thermometer to measure temperature?
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Expansion of a fluid, usually Mercury but alcohol (usually red colored) is used.
Expansion of a metal (solid) in a bimetallic strip
Change in electrical resistance - used in sensors
Thermoelectric effect - ( thermocouples)
Quartz crystal oscillator (Quartz crystal frequency varies slightly with temperature)
Thermochromic liquid crystal - (in the strips that show different colors)
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 13y agoExpansion of a liquid ( usually mercury ) when heated. A clinical thermometer is the same as a normal liquid in glass thermometers but have a range a few degrees to the either side of the human body temperature. This gives them great sensitivity for accurately measuring the human body temperature.
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What kind of property is temperature?
Temperature is an intensive physical property.
Is state of matter at room temperature a chemical or physical property?
The state of matter is a physical property at any temperature.
Is it a chemical change physical change chemical property or physical property when hydrogen chloride is a gas at room temperature.?
The observation that hydrogen chloride is a gas at room temperature is a PHYSICAL property.
Which property of an objects particles is temperature?
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How are thermometer made?
It generally made using fluid which expand or contract linearly with temperature such as mercury, water or alcohol. Electronic thermometer use the relation of thermal property effect electrical conduction difference to measure temperature.
What are thermal properties?
when objects are heated or cooled, their temperatures change, along with some of their properties, these properties are known as Thermometric Properties. Examples include: when objects are heated, they expand, when they are cooled, they shrink. Another is, if an object is heated, its' gaseos pressure will increase and will decrease when object is cooled.
Is temperature a physical property or a chemical property?
The state of matter is a physical property.
What kind of property is temperature?
Temperature is an intensive physical property.
What is a thermometric substance?
Thermometric substance is the material used in the thermometer, whose property varies with temperature.
Is state of matter at room temperature a chemical or physical property?
The state of matter is a physical property at any temperature.
Is a solid at room temperature a physical property?
physical property because it is unchanging.
What is thermometric substance?
These are materials used in thermometer whoses property varies with temperature
How you observe physical properties?
.... by measurement with an device designed for one particular property: balance for mass, thermometer for temperature, ruler for length, spectrophotometer for color, photometer for light, etc.
Is it a chemical change physical change chemical property or physical property when hydrogen chloride is a gas at room temperature.?
The observation that hydrogen chloride is a gas at room temperature is a PHYSICAL property.
A change in a physical property of another substance is a one physical change chemical change physical property?
It is a change of a physical property - for example the variation of temperature.
Which property of an objects particles is temperature?
Temperature is a physical property measured in Kelvin degrees or Celsius degrees.
Function of a thermometer?
TemperatureThermometers measure temperature, as opposed to heat. Temperature is an intensive property of matter, whereas heat is an extensive one. The Arctic Ocean has more heat than a boiling teapot of water, even though the latter's temperature is much higher, because extensive properties depend upon the amount of stuff you have. Specifically, thermometers measure temperature, which is the speed of particles. The faster the particles in a substance move, the higher the temperature. Slower moving particles have a lower temperature.
