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Why does the height of the liquid of a thermometer increaseswhen the temperature goes up?
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Thermal expansion of the fluid inside the thermometer.
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Describe how a thermometer uses the thermal expansion of a material to measure temperature?
A thermometer is a device that is used to gauge temperature. Mercury style thermometers used the elemental liquid in a tube of measured diameter and height. The higher the temperature, the higher the observed mercury level is. Thus, the height of the mercury uses marking to indicate which air temperature corresponds to the given height of its liquid expansion.
What measures the temperature of the liquid?
A thermometer will measure the temperature of a liquid.
Ho does a thermometer measure temperature?
A thermometer measures temperature by using the liquid inside of the thermometer. It measures temperature by Celsius and Fahrenheit.
How a thermometer is used?
A thermometer is used to measure air temperature, or the temperature within a solid or liquid.
What is a laboratory thermometer?
A laboratory thermometer is used to check the temperature, or changes in temperature, of an object with precise accuracy.
What features a liquid thermometer and a lab thermometer have in common?
they both measure temperature
What features do a liquid thermometer and a lab thermometer have in common?
they both measure temperature
What is a thin glass tube with a bulb on one end that usually contains a liquid usually mercury or colored alcohol?
This could describe a thermometer. The only thing missing is the graduations. That way the height of the column can be associated with a specific temperature, the one that caused the column to be as high as it is.
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 does a thermometer measure and how does it do it?
A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or temperature gradient using a variety of different principles. The word temperature comes from the Greek work thermo which is heat and meter to measure.
What happen to the liquid in a thermometer when it gets warm?
The liquid expand from heat. We use these expansion to indicate temperature. Common thermometer liquid is Mercury and alcohol.
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
