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Yes, maybe not as accurate but yes because it is the heat that makes it work and not gravity.
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What is the diffrerence between digital thermometer and mercury thermometer?
Digital thremometer is shows digit and run by electric or cells mercury thermometer is shows mercury up and down. when temperature low and down.
What direction is vertical?
vertical is up and down horizontal is side to side
Why doesn't the mercury on a medical thermometer go down when it's removed from the body?
There is a kink put in the tube which carries the mercury up the thermometer, that is why it needs to be shaken to send it back to the bulb
What makes mercury in a thermometer go up and down?
Change in temperature is what cause the Mercury to expand up (hotter) or shrink down (colder).
How do you tell how hot or cold something is?
use a thermometer.We can feel how hot or cold something is. However, sometimes things are just too hot or cold for us to feel safely. At other times we need to know exactly how hot or cold something is. When we need to measure temperature correctly we need to use an instrument called a thermometer. This measures temperature in degrees Celsius [sometimes called centigrade] or degrees Fahrenheit. There are different types of thermometers for different situations. A medical thermometer, for example, needs to be very accurate. It measures in fractions of degrees. When we are ill, even tiny changes in temperature are important. Some thermometers use a liquid that moves up a very fine glass tube. Most room thermometers, and outdoor thermometers are like this. The liquid is either mercury [ which is poisonous] or coloured alcohol. As liquids get warmer they expand [get bigger], and move up the tube. Water expands too, but not as much as alcohol and mercury. Thermometers that might be used by small children are not made of glass. They use a digital display which lights up the temperature. Inside the displays are chemicals that change colour according to the temperature.
When a thermometer is turned upside down why does it keep the same reading as when it was right side up?
nothing happens
What is the exploratory robots work envelope?
up down side to side
What is the diffrerence between digital thermometer and mercury thermometer?
Digital thremometer is shows digit and run by electric or cells mercury thermometer is shows mercury up and down. when temperature low and down.
Is thermometer a type of manometer?
Not quite; This is what the first source said about how a thermometer works; This liquid is sometimes colored alcohol but can also be a metallic liquid called mercury. Both mercury and alcohol grow bigger when heated and smaller when cooled. Inside the glass tube of a thermometer, the liquid has no place to go but up when the temperature is hot and down when the temperature is cold. In other words, the thermometer goes up or down due to the expansion of the alcohol or mercury due to the heat. After reviewing the second source, you will see that the columns go up and down due to the atmospheric pressure. If it goes up and down due to atmospheric pressure it is a manometer. A manometer does not work if it is not exposed to the atmosphere. A thermometer is sealed off to the outside. This is another reason why a thermometer is different from a manometer.
What causes liquid in thermometer to travel up and down in tube?
Heat causes Mercury in the thermometer to expand, where as when it is cooled, it contracts.
What happens to the values as you move up the left side a min thermometer?
They Increase.
Does butterology work?
No. The Mythbusters tested it, and recorded an even split of butter-side-up to butter-side down.
What makes hydrolics work?
hydrolics work on high pressure fluid pushing pistons up or down. a hydrolic arm that goes up will probably work on a lever with the arm on one side and the piston on the other side that goes down, and the piston is powered by pressurized fluid pushing the piston down.
Is horizontal up and down or side to side?
up and down * * * * * No. It is side to side - like the horizon.
Is vertical up and down or side to side?
Vertical is up and down and horizontal is side to side.
Why mercury go down and up suddenly in a thermometer?
Depending on Atmospheric Pressure
Is lengthwise up and down?
It can be either up and down, or side to side.
