In a mercury thermometer, a glass tube is filled with mercury and a standard temperature scale is marked on the tube. With changes in temperature, the mercury expands and contracts, and the temperature can be read from the scale. Mercury thermometers can be used to determine body, liquid, and vapor temperature.
Hereof, can I use a meat thermometer for liquid?
Using a Meat Thermometer for Water
You can use it to ensure that leftovers are heated up enough or even to check water temperature. To use a meat thermometer to check water temperature, just insert the probe of the thermometer into a pot of water and wait a few seconds for the final temperature reading.
Similarly one may ask, how do I clean and sanitize a digital thermometer?
Here’s how you clean a digital thermometer.
- Wash the tip of the thermometer with cold water.
- Wipe down the thermometer with alcohol-based wipes (at least 70% alcohol) or rubbing alcohol.
- Rinse the thermometer to remove the alcohol.
- Lastly, wipe it dry with a soft cloth.
- Repeat the entire process once again after use.
How do you measure the temperature of a liquid?
To properly measure liquid temperature, a temperature probe or other style of liquid thermometer is needed. This is a far more accurate method of measuring performance than simply measuring air temperature. A liquid thermometer placed in a cup of water will work if a liquid probe device is not available.
How does a liquid thermometer work?
A thermometer has a glass tube sealed at both ends and is partly filled with a liquid like mercury or alcohol. As the temperature around the thermometer’s bulb heats up, the liquid rises in the glass tube. … When it is hot, the liquid inside the thermometer will expand and rise in the tube.
Is there a difference between a meat thermometer and a liquid thermometer?
Meat thermometers usually have a smaller temperature range, up to 200 °F, and is a pointed device to insert into meat. A candy thermometer on the other hand measures much higher temperatures, usually up to 400 °F, and is long enough to sit in a pot of boiling liquid.
What are 3 types of thermometers?
What Are the Different Ways a Thermometer Can Be Used?
- Axillary Thermometers (under your arm)
- Oral Thermometers (under your tongue)
- Tympanic Thermometers (in your ear)
- Rectal Thermometers (in your rectum)
- Temporal Artery or Infrared Thermometers (across your forehead)
What is a liquid thermometer?
Liquid thermometers are the one in which there is liquid filled in the cappilary. This liquid rises when in contact with an object, the rise in the level of thermometer liquid shows the temperature of that object. Thermometer liquids are mercury and alcohol.
What is the difference between a meat thermometer and a candy thermometer?
Most candy thermometers can reach temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit, while meat thermometers typically go up to around 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Meat thermometers have a pointier base. Meat thermometers have a pointed, probe-type end, as opposed to the candy thermometer’s rounded (or sometimes flat) base.
Which thermometer is used to measure boiling water?
Answer: the thermometer used to measure the temperature of boiling water is celsius thermometer.
Which thermometer should never be washed with dirty water?
Because you will break it. The clinical thermometer has been made to measure temperature around our physiological temperature or 95 to 105F (35 to 40C. Using it in boiling water would break it, going way past the max temperature for this thermometer.
Why does my digital thermometer give me different readings?
Basal thermometers can measure small changes in your temperature. If you measure several times in a row, your body’s temperature will naturally rise (and sometimes fall), so the first temperature reading will be different than the next reading.
Will a digital thermometer work in liquid?
So, short answer: No, you can’t/shouldn’t. Depends on the food you want to measure and the exact type of thermometer you have but usually the ranges of temperatures are in a slightly different area. Stick the metal end into water to measure water temperature.