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Why boiling water is not used to sterilize a clinical thermometer?
Why boiling water is not used to sterilize a clinical thermometer?
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Clinical thermometer:
- Clinical thermometer is used to measure human body temperature.
- Clinical thermometer is capillary tube made of thin glass which is filled with mercury.
- For sterilizing, the clinical thermometer is not placed in boiling water because the bulb may break as its made of thin glass.
- Instead of boiling water, formaldehyde is used to sterilize the clinical thermometer.
Clinical thermometer:
- Clinical thermometer is used to measure human body temperature.
- Clinical thermometer is capillary tube made of thin glass which is filled with mercury.
- For sterilizing, the clinical thermometer is not placed in boiling water because the bulb may break as its made of thin glass.
- Instead of boiling water, formaldehyde is used to sterilize the clinical thermometer.
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