mercury thermometer
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1. thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube (noun.artifact)
| hypernym | : | thermometer, |
| definition | : | measuring instrument for measuring temperature (noun.artifact) |
| hyponym | : | beckman thermometer, |
| definition | : | a mercury thermometer that measures small differences or changes in temperature (noun.artifact) |
| part holonym | : | bulb, |
| definition | : | a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end) (noun.artifact) |
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