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mercury thermometer

noun

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