Question

(a) State the difference between a clinical thermometer and a laboratory thermometer.
(b) Draw a neat labelled diagram of a clinical thermometer.
(c) Can a laboratory thermometer be used to measure our body temperature? Why or why not?

Answer 1

(a)

Clinical Thermometer	Laboratory Thermometer
A clinical thermometer is used to measure our body temperature.	A laboratory thermometer is used to measure temperature of solutions or any object that is under investigation in laboratory.
A clinical thermometer has smaller range as human body has small range of temperature.	The range of laboratory thermometer is very high as temperature of objects may vary from 0oC to 100oC or above.

(b)



(c) A laboratory thermometer cannot be used to measure our body temperature because a laboratory thermometer is not as accurate as a clinical thermometer. A clinical thermometer has a small range but has a high accuracy. It measures temperature to the tenth of a degree, but a laboratory thermometer do not have a partial degree separations.