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What are the two substances used in a liquid column thermometer?
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Why silver cannot be used in a glass thermometer?
The liquid used in a glass thermometer needs to expand linearly with temperature. It probably does not so it cannot be used. Besides, silver is expensive.
What Kind of thermometer should you use for measuring liquids?
A thermometer can be used to measure the temperature of a liquid. There are digital devices that don't need to come into contact to register the temperature.
What are the two substance used in liquid column thermometers?
iodine and Mercury
What is the name of the liquid in a thermometer?
The red liquid in a liquid-in-glass thermometer is mineral spirits or ethanol alcohol mixed with red dye. A grey or silver liquid inside the thermometer is mercury. Mercury thermometers are not used anymore due to the dangers associated with mercury.
What liquid can be used in a thermometer?
Ethanol-filled thermometers are used in preference to mercury for meteorological measurements of minimum temperatures and can be used down to −70 °C (-94 °F). The physical limitation of the ability of a thermometer to measure low temperature is the freezing point of the liquid used.Alcohol
What is a thin glass tube with a bulb on one end that usually contains a liquid usually mercury or colored alcohol?
This could describe a thermometer. The only thing missing is the graduations. That way the height of the column can be associated with a specific temperature, the one that caused the column to be as high as it is.
The liquid most commonly used in a thermometer is either mercury or?
The liquid commonly used in a thermometer is mercury or COLOURED ALCOHOL.
What liquid metal was commonly used in thermometer?
We still use colored alcohol for our liquid in everyday thermometers.
How can Mercury be used as a liquid in a thermometer?
it is used in liquid form as in room temperature the mercury is in liquid
What was the first liquid used in a thermometer?
The first thermometer was a tube filled with water and air.
How a barometer can be used to measure the vapor pressure of a liquid?
A mercury thermometer, that is a barometer can be used to measure vapor pressure. Initially, a proper temperature must be recorded. Then the liquid should be injected into the mercury column. This new measurement subtracted from the original will yield the vapor pressure of a liquid.
How a thermometer is used?
A thermometer is used to measure air temperature, or the temperature within a solid or liquid.
What element is often used as the liquid of thermometer?
Mercury
What are the two liquid used in the thermometer?
iodine and Mercury
What is fractionation column used for?
The fractionation column is used to separate components of a liquid by distillation.
What is a laboratory thermometer?
A laboratory thermometer is used to check the temperature, or changes in temperature, of an object with precise accuracy.
Why the doctor drops the thermometer in a liquid before use?
The liquid is an antiseptic used to sterilise it. You wouldn't want to be contaminated with any bacteria or viruses from the last person who used the thermometer, would you?
