Question

Why do clinical thermometers have a bend
or kink?‍‍‍‍❤‍‍‍❤‍‍‍‍‍‍‍❤‍​

Answer 1

Explanation:

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• Kink in the Mercury thermometer helps to prevents the falling of mercury present in capillary tube into bulb. It ensures that the user takes the correct reading of temperature.

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Answer 2

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★ Answer

Clinical thermometer is a thermometer used to measure the body temperature of humans & animals . The clinical thermometer have a kink in capillary tube because it prevents the mercury from falling back , after the thermometer is removed from a patient's mouth .

★ Facts of Clinical Thermometer

• A clinical Thermometer was invented by Sir Thomas Clifford Albutt in 1866 .

• A clinical thermometer has a good structure which consist of a bulb at its end which is filled with mercury , a kink just little above bulb , a glass tube .

• There are two scales , Celsius & Fahernheit shown on clinical thermometer .

• As clinical thermometer has mercury in it which can cause disease .. Nowdays , it is replaced by digital thermometer which has thermistor instead of mercury . Still usage of clinical thermometer can be seen in clinics .