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Water does not change as much in volume with temperature as much as Mercury does, which makes it more difficult to read temperature Changes on a scale.

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What is Mercury thermometer use to measure?

A mercury thermometer is used to measure temperature.


What liquids are used in thermometer?

Mercury and alcohol


What are mercury thermometers used for?

If the bulb is red, blue, purple, green or any other color, it is not a mercury thermometer. Mercury thermometerscan be used to determine body temperature (fever thermometers), liquid temperature, and vapor temperature.


Why does Mercury in the the thermometer rise?

Mercury rises in a thermometer when the temperature increases because mercury expands as it heats up. This expansion of the mercury column inside the thermometer is used to measure the temperature of the surrounding environment.


Why can a mercury thermometer be used only at high temperatures?

A mercury thermometer can go down to -30 deg C


What happen to the mercury when the bulb placed in hot water?

When a thermometer bulb containing mercury is placed in hot water, the mercury inside expands, causing the level of mercury to rise. This expansion of mercury is used to measure the increase in temperature accurately.


Who element used of the glass tube of clinical thermometer to measure thermometer?

mercury


How is mercury used in a thermometer?

toxic poison


What is the mercury called on a clinical thermometer?

The liquid in a clinical thermometer is called mercury. It is used to measure body temperature by expanding and rising within the thermometer.


Why does the mercury in the thermometer go up when the temperature is high?

In a mercury thermometer, the mercury expands when it is heated, causing it to rise in the thermometer's narrow tube. This increase in volume is a physical property of mercury known as thermal expansion. The height of the mercury column in the thermometer is then used to measure the temperature.


Why not mercury thermometer is used to measure temperature of hot milk?

It could be used to do this - it is capable of doing it. However, Mercury is poisonous and a mercury thermometer is made out of fragile glass. Thus the danger that the thermometer would break releasing mercury into the milk (which would be for a person to drink) means that a mercury thermomiter is not the temperature sensor to use in this instance.


What element is often used as the liquid of thermometer?

Mercury