This page is about how energy things work and focuses on How Does the Thermometer Work? ... How A Thermometer Works ... A thermometer is a device that measures the temperature of things. The name is made up of two smaller words: "Thermo" means heat and "meter" means to measure. You can use a thermometer to tell the...
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A thermometer is an instrument that measures the temperature. Temperature is measured in a scale called Fahrenheit (by most people in the United States) and in Celsius or Centigrade (used by scientists and by people in many other countries).
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Thermometers measure temperature, by using materials that change in some way when they are heated or cooled. In a mercury or alcohol thermometer the liquid expands as it is heated and contracts when it is cooled, so the length of the liquid...
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Thermometer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A thermometer (from the Greek θερμός ( thermo ) meaning "warm" and meter , "to measure") is a device that measures temperature or temperature gradient using a variety of different principles. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermometer
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If you look around your house, you will find lots of different devices whose goal in life is to either detect or measure changes in temperature: The thermometer in the backyard tells you how hot or cold it is outside. The meat and candy th...
http://www.howstuffworks.com/therm.htm
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Thermometers are used in everything from medicine to cooking. Find out how thermometers gauge temperature and learn how to make your own! ... The bulb thermometer is the common glass thermometer you probably grew up with. The thermometer contains some type of fluid, generally mercury.
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A thermometer is an instrument that measures the temperature of a system in a quantitative way. The easiest way to do this is to find a substance having a property that changes in a regular way with its temperature.
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