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Is mercury in a thermometer an element?

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Yes Mercury is present on the tip of both clinical and laboratory thermometers

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What element is found in a thermometer?

Mercury :)


Is a thermometer made of the mercury element?

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

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What element is often used as the liquid of thermometer?

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What liquid metal is most commonly used in thermometer?

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Why does the mercury in the thermometer not spill even by moving it?

If the question relates to the tendency of the mercury to stay clumped together rather than separate inside the thermometer, it's due to the high surface tension of that element. Mercury can separate inside the thermometer, but its unusual for it to do that for the stated reason.