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An instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as Mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale marked on the tube or its frame. Source~ dictionary.refrence.com

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