What Is the Liquid in a Thermometer?
What Is the Liquid in a Thermometer? Most thermometers are sealed glass tubes with liquid inside. The liquid is either mercury, which is sil
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Why Must a Fever Thermometer Be Shaken?
Why Must a Fever Thermometer Be Shaken? A fever thermometer is made so that the mercury in the tube will remain at the highest point it regi
How Does a Thermometer Work?
How Does a Thermometer Work? Most thermometers are sealed glass tubes with liquid inside. A thermometer measures heat by the amount of liqui
How Did the Element Mercury Get Its Name?
How Did the Element Mercury Get Its Name? The element, “mercury,” was named after Mercury, the swift messenger of the gods in Roman mytholog
Hot Soup and the Thermometer
This incident happened to me when I was hardly two years old. As a child, I was very mischievous and used to be under the constant watch of