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2. Mercury-in-glass thermometer - Wikipedia

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   A medical mercury-in-glass maximum thermometer showing the temperature of 38.7 °C (101.7 °F). One special kind of mercury-in-glass thermometer, called a maximum thermometer, works by having a constriction in the neck close to the bulb. As the temperature rises, the mercury is pushed up through the constriction by the force of expansion.

3. Thermometer - Wikipedia

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   A thermometer is a device that measures temperature (the hotness or coldness of an object) or temperature gradient (the rates of change of temperature in space). A thermometer has two important elements: (1) a temperature sensor (e.g. the bulb of a mercury-in-glass thermometer or the pyrometric sensor in an infrared thermometer) in which some ...

4. Room temperature - Wikipedia

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   A digital thermometer reading an ambient temperature of 36.4°C (97°F) in an unventilated room during a heat wave; a high indoor temperature can cause heat exhaustion or heat stroke in a person. The World Health Organization in 1987 found that comfortable indoor temperatures of 18–24 °C (64–75 °F) were not associated with health risks ...

5. This oven thermometer is one of Ina Garten's secret ... - AOL

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   "I compared the thermometer with two others for the first time to compare for accuracy. This one is as accurate as any other I have used. Notably, 80% of all ovens I test are more than 20 degrees ...

6. Scale of temperature - Wikipedia

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   The specific way of assigning numerical values for temperature is establishing a scale of temperature. [1] [2] [3] In practical terms, a temperature scale is always based on usually a single physical property of a simple thermodynamic system, called a thermometer, that defines a scaling function for mapping the temperature to the measurable ...

7. This Is The Best Place To Put A Thermometer In A Turkey - AOL

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   Instant-read thermometers provide quick, accurate readings, probe thermometers are best for oven-roasting, digital thermometers offer precise results and alarms, and traditional dial thermometers ...