mercury thermometer
thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube • Syn: mercury-in-glass thermometer • Hypernyms: thermometer • Hyponyms: Beckman thermometer, clinical thermometer, mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer • Part Meronyms: bulb
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