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Why a clinical thermometer should not be sterilized by boiling water?

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  2. Two thermometer are constructed in the same way except that one has a ...

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  3. Why a clinical thermometer should not be sterilized by boiling water?

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  4. Should a thermometer bulb have large heat capacity or small heat capac...

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  5. The gas thermometer are more sensitive than the liquid thermometers b...

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  6. The normal temperature of human body on the Kelvin scale is

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  7. Mercury boils at 367^(@)C. However, mercury thermometers are made such...

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  8. A mercury therometer is transferred from melting ice to a hot liquid. ...

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  9. The readings of a thermometer at 0^(@)C and 100^(@)C are 50 cm and 75 ...

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  10. Two bodies at different temperature T(1) and T(2). If brought in therm...

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  11. Do you think a body at higher temperature contains more heat? Explain.

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  12. Solids expand on heating because

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  13. Solids expand on heating because

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  14. Why is Kelvin temperature always positive ?

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  15. The diameters of steel. rods A and B having the same length are 2 cm a...

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  16. The difference between lenghts of a certain brass rod and of a steel r...

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  17. Why a small gap is left between the iron rails of railway tracks ?

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  18. Pendulum clocks generally go fast in winter and slow in summer.Why ?

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  19. Why is inver used in making a clock pendulum?

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  20. A brass disc fits snugly in a hole in a steel plate. Should you heat o...

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