what is the similarity and difference between laboratory thermometer and clinical thermometer?
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Similarities Both thermometers are used to measure temperature and both of them use mercury. Differences Clinical thermometer is used to measure human body temperature whereas laboratory thermometer is used to measure temperature of other object which has higher temperature than human body temperature.
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Both are made of glass and consist of a long narrow glass tube.
At one end, both of them have a bulb.
Bulbs of both the thermometers consist of mercury
Celsius scale is present in both the thermometer
Difference between Clinical Thermometer and a laboratory thermometer
Clinical Thermometer Laboratory thermometer
Temperature range is 35 to 42 0 c The temperature range is -10 to 110 0 c
Used to measure human body temperature Used to measure temperature in the laboratory
It has kink, which prevents immediate backflow of