A company decides to make a novelty glass thermometer that uses water instead of mercury or alcohol.

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A company decides to make a novelty glass thermometer that uses water instead of mercury or alcohol.
(a) The thermometer would include a warning informing the user that it should not be exposed to temperatures below 0οC. Why?
(b) Suppose the thermometer is taken outside where the temperature is 1οC. Describe how the level of the water would change as it adjusts to the new temperature and how at some point it would behave very differently than a mercury- or alcohol-filled thermometer.

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Inquiry into Physics

ISBN: 978-1305959422

8th edition

Authors: Vern J. Ostdiek, Donald J. Bord

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