Wednesday 12 December 2007

[ Instruments to measure the temperature ]


The thermometers are a instruments that measure the temperature.

There are three types of thermometres:

Alcohol thermometre of laboratory.

Clinical thermometers of mercury.

Thermometer of alcohol of environment.


To measure the temperature,there are two scales:

The centigrade temperature scale or celsius: in this scale,the unit is a centigrade degree (ºC).

The scientific use the Kelvin scale.In this scale,the unit is the Kelvin (K).One kelvin has got the same size that a centigrade degree,but the cero of Kelvin scale is -273ºC and yourname is absolute cero.


To transform one value of a scale to other is easy:Kelvin temperature = centigrade temperature+273



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