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

We used this to measure the day temperature

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Why do we jerk a clinical thermometer before we measure body temperature?

Statement - (A) : Thermistor can have only negative temperature coefficients of resistances. Statement - (B): Thermistors with negative temperature coefficients of resistance are used as resistance thermometers, to measure low temperatures of the order of 10 K.

No other thermometer is as suitable as a platinum resistance thermometer to measure temperature the entire range of

(A) : A clinical thermometer is usually much shorter than a laboratory thermometer. ( R) : In clinical thermometer only a limited range of temperature is required.

When we use a clinical thermometer we require longer time to register the temperature of a human body than to shake it down to the initial ambient temperature. This observation can be due to

If Mercury boils at 357°C still a mercury thermometer is designed to measure temperature at 500°C. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding this arrangement?

Why Mercury is used in thermometers?

Two thermometers are used to record the temperature of a room. lf the bulb of one is wrapped in wet hanky: