What is the difference between a Clinical thermometer and a simple thermometer?
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The difference between a simple thermometer and a clinical thermometer is as follows:
| Sn | Clinical thermometer | Simple thermometer (laboratory thermometer) |
| 1. | The thermometer which is used to measure the temperature of the human body is called a clinical thermometer. | The thermometer which is used to measure the temperature of substances in the lab is called a laboratory thermometer or a simple thermometer. |
| 2. | The temperature range of the clinical thermometer is 35°C to 42°C. | The temperature range of the laboratory thermometer (simple thermometer) is -10°C to 110°C |
| 3. | The clinical thermometer has a constriction or kink to hold the thermometric liquid. | A simple thermometer doesn't have constriction or kink. |
| Mercury or alcohol is not used as a thermometric liquid in a clinical thermometer. | Mercury is used as the thermometric liquid in a simple thermometer |
Things to remember from Heat
- Heat is the sum of the molecular kinetic energy of a body.
- The degree of hotness of a body is called temperature.
- Heat always flows from a body having a higher temperature to a body having a lower temperature.
- Heat is a cause whereas temperature is an effect.
- An instrument that is used to measure the temperature of a body is called a thermometer.
- In general, two scales are used in thermometer, celsius, and Fahrenheit.
- The thermometer used to measure the temperature of the human body is called a clinical thermometer.
- The thermometer used in the laboratory is that liquid expands of heating and contracts on cooling.
- Conversion relation of degree Celcius and degree Fahrenheit is (C-0)/100 = (F-32)/180
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