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Describe how a liquid thermometer and a thermocouple are the same and how they are different?
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Both are used to measure temperature, but by different means. A liquid based thermometer uses the expansion of a liquid with temperature to indicate the temperature, while a thermocouple uses electrical differentials at the junctions of dissimilar metals to do so. So in the case of the liquid thermometer the reading is position of a liquid in a tube, and in the case of a thermocouple it is a voltage measured with a voltmeter. Thermocouples may be better suited to measuring extreme temperatures.
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What apparatus used to measure temperature?
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What is the liquid in thermometer's called?
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Different types of thermometers?
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