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A medical thermometer or clinical thermometer is a device used for measuring the body temperature of a human or other animal. The tip of the thermometer is inserted into the mouth under the tongue (oral or sub-lingual temperature), under the armpit (axillary temperature), into the rectum via the anus (rectal temperature), into the ear (tympanic temperature), or on the forehead (temporal ...
An infrared thermometer is a thermometer which infers temperature from a portion of the thermal radiation sometimes called black-body radiation emitted by the object being measured. They are sometimes called laser thermometers as a laser is used to help aim the thermometer, or non-contact thermometers or temperature guns, to describe the device ...
Six's maximum and minimum thermometer is a registering thermometer that can record the maximum and minimum temperatures reached over a period of time, for example 24 hours. It is used to record the extremes of temperature at a location, for instance in meteorology and horticulture. It was invented by the British scientist James Six, in 1780; [1 ...
It took a spell of brilliant death bowling from Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya, as well as Suryakumar Yadav taking what social media users immediately labelled the “greatest catch ever,” to ...
A basic mercury thermometer is a precisely crafted piece of tube-shaped glass enveloping a mercury-filled reservoir connected to an extremely thin channel, called the capillary bore, that provides a chamber the mercury from the reservoir can expand into. The shorter, bulbous end of the tube containing the reservoir is called the bulb and the ...
Wang, who is turning 75 next month, got candid about aging during a Wednesday, May 22, episode of the “Wiser Than Me” podcast. “I dye my hair,” Wang told host Julia Louis-Dreyfus while ...
Just look at 8-month-old Liberty, AKA Libby. This little angel is only just learning how to be a dog after being rescued by Buffalo Pug and Small Breed Rescue, but her time in her foster home has ...
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