A clinical thermometer is a is not used to measure high temperature and why
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A clinical thermometer cannot be used to measure high temperature because it is designed to only measure temperatures a handful of degrees either side of normal body temperature (98-99F).
If you heated the liquid in the thermometer much over 105-110F it would expand to the top of the capillary tube, finally bursting its way through and breaking the glass.
If you heated the liquid in the thermometer much over 105-110F it would expand to the top of the capillary tube, finally bursting its way through and breaking the glass.
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A clinical thermometer cannot be used to measure high temperatures because it has been designed to measure only human body temperature which varies over a short range.
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