As the Mercury is heated it expands and as is cools it contracts. It is used because it also heats and cools in even intervals that are easy to track in a metric system.
As the Mercury is heated it expands and as is cools it contracts. It is used because it also heats and cools in even intervals that are easy to track in a metric system.
Because Mercury Reacts to Temperature...Contracts (cold) Expands (warm)...Give me another.
The wide temperature range at which it is a liquid.
A mercury thermometer is used to measure temperature.
Mercury is used in thermometers. The mercury is the red substance in the thermometer that rises when you put it in your mouth.
The liquid commonly used in a thermometer is mercury or COLOURED ALCOHOL.
Mercury and alcohol
A mercury thermometer can go down to -30 deg C
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toxic poison
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Alcoholic thermometers are more accurate than mercury thermometers
it is used in liquid form as in room temperature the mercury is in liquid
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