Question

state similarities and differences between the laboratory thermometer and clinical thermometer

Answer 1

clinical thermometer is used for measuring body temperature and laboratory thermometer is not used for measuring body temperature it is used in other purposes

Answer 2

$\star{\red{\sf{Similarity}}}$

• both are made of glass and consist of long narrow glass tube.
• At one end both of them have a bulb
• Bulbs of both the thermometers consist of mercury.
• Celcius scale is present in both the thermometer.

$\star{\red{\sf{Difference}}}$

• Clinical thermometer is used to measure human body temperature whereas laboratory thermometer is used to measure the temperature of other object which has higher temperature than human body temperature.