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Why humans are bad thermometers?

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Where do humans make use of expansion?

thermometers (liquid mercury)


What are clinical thermometers?

A clinical thermometer is a thermometer people use to check the average humans body temperature.


What different kinds of thermometers are there?

There are 34 different types of thermometer that range from alcohol thermometers and ear thermometers to medical thermometers and electrical resistance thermometers.


What uses do humans use Mercury for?

The fluid in thermometers, in lamps (gas form), dental amalgams, and mascara, among others.


What where the first thermometers?

Mecury thermometers


Why is mercury the only metal to have been used in thermometers?

It's the only metal that is liquid in the temperature range that is most important to humans.


How are mercury thermometers used today?

Mercury thermometers are rarely used, except in lab thermometers. For human use, they have been replaced by dyed alcohol glass thermometers, or electronic digital thermometers.


Are digital and clinical thermometers same?

no,digital thermometers don't have mercury whereas clinical thermometers have mercury.


What are strip thermometers?

the thermometers which are used to find your temperature


Different types of thermometers?

Celsius and Fahrenheit Thermometers Clinical Thermometers Ear (Tympanic) thermometers Pacifier Thermometers Underarm or Oral Thermometers Food Thermometers Outdoor Thermometers Mechanism of Different Types of Thermometers Mercury and Alcohol Thermometers Digital Thermometers Alcohol thermometer Beckmann differential thermometer Bi-metal mechanical thermometer Electrical resistance thermometer Galileo thermometer Infrared thermometer Liquid Crystal Thermometer Medical thermometer (e.g. oral thermometer, rectal thermometer, basal thermometer) Mercury-in-glass thermometer


Why can't silver be used in thermometers?

Because silver is a solid at the temperatures that are most useful to humans, which makes it more difficult to use it as an indicator of temperature.


What liquid mental is used for thermometers?

Mercury is used in thermometers.