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What is the mass and capacity in liquid in a thermometer?
This depends on the thermometer model.
What was the first liquid used in a thermometer?
The first thermometer was a tube filled with water and air.
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 liquid metal was commonly used in thermometer?
We still use colored alcohol for our liquid in everyday thermometers.
Would ethanol be better than mercury for an outdoor thermometer in the arctic?
Ethanol would be better because it has a smaller range.
What tool would you use to determine the temperature of a liquid?
Thermometer
What is the liquid in thermometer's called?
Mercury the liquid inside thermometer is mercury.. but it is called thermometric liquid.
What causes the liquid to move in a thermometer?
When the liquid in the thermometer gets warmer it expands.
Why is it inappropriate to stir a liquid with a thermometer?
Because that will mess with the temperature reading on the thermometer. And it would be dangerous if the thermometer is broken as there are dangerous chemicals (i.e.mercury) inside.
What is liquid-in-glass thermometer?
what do they use for the liquid in glass ball thermometer
Which device has a liquid in glass components?
thermometer
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?
A thermometer is placed in water in order to measure the water temperature. What would cause the liquid in the thermometer to drop?
Water Temperaure cools
How did the thermometer make life better?
yes, indeed thermometer makes life better. if there was no thermometer people would not know about the temperature varying in their body and if they had fever they would not be able to know and cure it. hen of course it would lead to deaths.therefore without thermometer there would have been thousands of deaths. there are different types of thermometer not only for body temperature but also for the surroundings.
How does a glass thermometer works?
As the liquid in the thermometer is heated it expands, and the only way the expanding liquid can go is upward. As the liquid in the thermometer cools, it will contract, and the liquid will fall back down into the resevoir, causing the column of liquid to move downward.
Why does the liquid expand in a thermometer when it gets hotter?
In a thermometer is a liquid metal called Mercury, so the liquid expands when it is heated up.
What is the liquid in the ball of the thermometer?
the liguid inside the thermometer is Mercury.
