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Q: How are standard and minimum-maximum thermometers?
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Are electronic thermometers more reliable than a standard thermometer?

Electronic thermometers and standard thermometers are equally accurate. In terms of reliability, the standard thermometer wins. Why? Because it doesn't have any batteries to go dead.


What different kinds of thermometers are there?

There are 34 different types of thermometer that range from alcohol thermometers and ear thermometers to medical thermometers and electrical resistance thermometers.


What where the first thermometers?

Mecury thermometers


How are mercury thermometers used today?

Mercury thermometers are rarely used, except in lab thermometers. For human use, they have been replaced by dyed alcohol glass thermometers, or electronic digital thermometers.


How do thermometers works?

For a basic design of thermometers would base on the principle of thermal expansion, either using air in syringe expand and contract with temperature to indicate the scale or using liquid filled into capillary and mark the scale according to a standard thermometer.


Are digital and clinical thermometers same?

no,digital thermometers don't have mercury whereas clinical thermometers have mercury.


How do handmade thermometers work?

For a basic design of thermometers would base on the principle of thermal expansion, either using air in syringe expand and contract with temperature to indicate the scale or using liquid filled into capillary and mark the scale according to a standard thermometer.


What are strip thermometers?

the thermometers which are used to find your temperature


Different types of thermometers?

Celsius and Fahrenheit Thermometers Clinical Thermometers Ear (Tympanic) thermometers Pacifier Thermometers Underarm or Oral Thermometers Food Thermometers Outdoor Thermometers Mechanism of Different Types of Thermometers Mercury and Alcohol Thermometers Digital Thermometers Alcohol thermometer Beckmann differential thermometer Bi-metal mechanical thermometer Electrical resistance thermometer Galileo thermometer Infrared thermometer Liquid Crystal Thermometer Medical thermometer (e.g. oral thermometer, rectal thermometer, basal thermometer) Mercury-in-glass thermometer


What liquid mental is used for thermometers?

Mercury is used in thermometers.


What is common in fishes and thermometers?

Mercury is common in both fish and thermometers. Although nowadays they make thermometers without mercury in them.


Why are digital thermometers used these days?

Digital thermometers have replaced mercury thermometers because mercury is toxic. [Personal commentary: digital thermometers are not accurate and mercury thermometers are so how many people are being harmed by not knowing their temperature versus how many would be harmed by the mercury if accurate thermometers were still used?]