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mercury thermometer
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  mercury thermometer - thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tubemercury-in-glass thermometerBeckman thermometer - a mercury thermometer that measures small differences or changes in temperaturebulb - a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end); "the bulb of a syringe"clinical thermometer, mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer - a mercury thermometer designed to measure the temperature of the human body; graduated to cover a range a few degrees on either side of the normal body temperaturethermometer - measuring instrument for measuring temperature |
mercury thermometer
mercury thermometer[′mər·kyə·rē thər′mäm·əd·ər] (engineering) A liquid-in-glass thermometer or a liquid-in-metal thermometer using mercury as the liquid. mercury thermometer
mercury thermometerA thermometer containing mercury for measurement of temperature. Mercury thermometers are seldom employed because they are an important source of heavy metal pollution of rivers, streams, and aquatic life. See also: thermometermercury thermometer
Related to mercury thermometer: clinical thermometerSynonyms for mercury thermometernoun thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or FahrenheitSynonyms- mercury-in-glass thermometer
Related Words- Beckman thermometer
- bulb
- clinical thermometer
- mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer
- thermometer
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