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Why not mercury thermometer is used to measure temperature of hot milk?
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∙ 10y ago
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.
Minerva Orn
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∙ 10y agoIt 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.
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