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The first thermometer was a tube filled with water and air.
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What liquid metal was commonly used in thermometer?
We still use colored alcohol for our liquid in everyday thermometers.
What is the mass and capacity in liquid in a thermometer?
This depends on the thermometer model.
What are the materials used for a Galileo thermometer?
A Galileo thermometer is a thermometer made of a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and a series of objects whose densities are such that they rise or fall as the temperature changes.
What effect does the use of an uncalibrated thermometer have on the boiling point of a liquid?
The thermometer's reading of the point the liquid boils may not be accurate.
What is the silver liquid inside of a thermometer called?
Mercury
The liquid most commonly used in a thermometer is either mercury or?
The liquid commonly used in a thermometer is mercury or COLOURED ALCOHOL.
What was the first liquid used in the first ever thermometer?
Water - Galileo Galilei invented a rudimentary water thermometer in 1593 which, for the first time, allowed temperature variations to be measured
What liquid metal was commonly used in thermometer?
We still use colored alcohol for our liquid in everyday thermometers.
How can Mercury be used as a liquid in a thermometer?
it is used in liquid form as in room temperature the mercury is in liquid
How a thermometer is used?
A thermometer is used to measure air temperature, or the temperature within a solid or liquid.
What element is often used as the liquid of thermometer?
Mercury
What are the two liquid used in the thermometer?
iodine and Mercury
What is a laboratory thermometer?
A laboratory thermometer is used to check the temperature, or changes in temperature, of an object with precise accuracy.
Why the doctor drops the thermometer in a liquid before use?
The liquid is an antiseptic used to sterilise it. You wouldn't want to be contaminated with any bacteria or viruses from the last person who used the thermometer, would you?
Whats the difference of fever thermometer and laboratory thermometer?
fever thermometer is used by the doctors and they are adjusted to body temperature whereas lab thermometer is adjusted to liquid temperature
What is the liquid in thermometer's called?
Mercury the liquid inside thermometer is mercury.. but it is called thermometric liquid.
Which types of liquids should be used in a liquid glass thermometer?
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