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Definition of Mercury-in-glass thermometer
1. Noun. 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 tube.
Specialized synonyms: Beckman Thermometer, Clinical Thermometer, Mercury-in-glass Clinical Thermometer
Terms within: Bulb
Generic synonyms: Thermometer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercury-in-glass Thermometer
Literary usage of Mercury-in-glass thermometer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Physics Measurements by Ervin Sidney Ferry, Oscar William Silvey, George William Sherman, David Christie Duncan (1918)
"Determination of the Corrections to be Applied to the Readings of a Mercury-in-Glass
Thermometer for (a) Errors due to Displacement of the Fixed Points, ..."
2. College Physics by John Oren Reed, Karl Eugen Guthe (1911)
"Another limitation of the mercury-in-glass thermometer is due to the nature of
the glass envelope itself. Glass bulbs when blown, contract slowly for months ..."
3. College Physics by John Oren Reed, Karl Eugen Guther (1911)
"150 Limitations of the mercury-in-glass thermometer. Mercury freezes at — 39° 0,
and consequently cannot be used to measure temperatures below this point. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The mercury-in-glass thermometer consists essentially of four parts, these
being (1) the mercury, (2) the spherical or cylindrical bulb of glass ..."
5. Laboratory Physics: A Students Manual for Colleges and Scientific Schools by Dayton Clarence Miller (1903)
"The mercury-in-glass thermometer is the almost universal laboratory instrument
for the measurement of temperature. Such skill has been attained in the ..."
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