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The laboratory thermometer was invented by whom, when and where?


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Laboratory thermometer:

  1. A device that is used for measuring temperature is called a thermometer.
  2. Clinical thermometers are used in households to measure the temperatures of human bodies.
  3. Whereas, laboratory thermometers (also called lab thermometers) are used in laboratories to measure other kinds of temperatures like boiling and melting points.
  4. Their range lies between the temperatures -10°C and.110°C.
  5. In the sixteenth century, an Italian physician known as Santorio de' Sanctoriis invented the laboratory thermometer.

Hence, the laboratory thermometer was invented by Santorio de' Sanctoriis in the sixteenth century in Italy.


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