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What is the temperature scale used on most laboratory thermometers?

Temperature scale used on most laboratory thermometers is a thermometer.


What is the temperature scale used on laboratory thermometers?

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Is alcohol used for clinical thermometers or laboratory thermometers?

Alcohole is not used for any thermometer only murcury (Hg) is used


What is the temperature used on laboratory thermometers?

the temperature measured on the laboratory thermometer is from-10degree Celsius to 110 degree Celsius


What are the different kinds of uses of the laboratory thermometers?

Checking the temperature of any liquid


Why is mercury used in clinical thermometer and not laboratory thermometer?

Mercury is no longer used much in thermometers due to the poisonous compounds that it forms. When I grew up, in Chemistry at school and at the doctors there were mercury thermometers and alcohol thermometers.


Why clinical thermometers are used to measure the temperature of boiling water?

Clinical thermometers are not used to measure the temperature of boiling water! They have a range of about 35oC to 43oC and they will explode at a temperature of about 100oC! Ordinary laboratory thermometers are used.


What are four different types of thermometers?

1. Clinical Thermometer 2. Laboratory Thermometer 3.


What happens to a laboratory thermometer if it measures more than 110 degrees?

I am not sure what sort of thermometers you have in your klab but a mercury-in-glass thermometer should be fine up to 350 deg C. Thermometers based on thermocouples can go very much higher. So the simple answer is that nothing happens.


What is the difference between clinical thermometer and laboratory thermometer?

Laboratory thermometers can measure wide variety of temperature, whereas a clinical thermometer has a range between 95 to 105 Fahrenheit. Clinical thermometers are made to be used in a hospital to accurately determinebody temperature. They are often digital. Lab thermometers are made of metal or glass and usually don't give you an accurate reading as much as a "ball park". Clinical thermometer may have mercury but lab thermometers usually have alcohol .


Why alcohol used in laboratory thermometers instead of mercury?

mercury is toxic but alcohol is not and alcohol is cheaper than mercury