Question

why is a clinical thermometer not used to measure the temperature of air?

Answer 1

All clinical thermometers have a kink that prevents the mercury from flowing back into the bulb when thethermometer is taken out of the patien's mouth, so that thetemperature can be noted conveniently. ... Since the Fahrenheit scale is more sensitive than the Celsius scale, body temperature ismeasured in °F only

Answer 2

clinical thermometer is not sutable to measure the air temperature . the range of clinical thermometer is less than the air temperature measuring thermometer. so, we does not use a clinical thermometer to measure the temperature of air.