Thermometer Sentence Examples

The thermometer nailed to the porch read eighty-five degrees.

Warmth ran up her neck like a thermometer on a hot day.

There is no difficulty in observing the temperature of the surface of the sea on board ship, the only precautions required being to draw the water in a bucket which has not been heated in the sun in summer or exposed to frost in winter, to draw it well forward of any discharge pipes of the steamer, to place it in the shade on deck, insert the thermometer immediately and make the reading without delay.

The temperature drops so rapidly that a month later, about October the oth on the middle Urals and November the 15th throughout Russia, the thermometer ceases to rise above the freezing-point.

In the same way, whilst in the plains and hills round Naples snow is rarely seen, and never remains long, and the thermometer seldom descends to the freezing-point, 20 m.

In the districts bordering on the coast the thermometer seldom falls below 37°; and only for a few moments and at long intervals has it been known to rise as high as 105°.

In 1889, at Windsor, prizes were awarded for a fruit and vegetable evaporator, a paring and coring machine, a dairy thermometer, parcel post butter-boxes to carry different weights, and a vessel to contain preserved butter.

Carmen grabbed the thermometer from the counter and gave it to him.

The first is the slow-action thermometer which was originally used with good effect by de Saussure in the Mediterranean in 1780.

When brought up again the thermometer retained its temperature so long that there was ample time to take a correct reading.

The third form is the outflow or reversing thermometer, first introduced by Aime, who used a very inconvenient form in the Mediterranean in 1841-1845, but greatly improved and simplified by Negretti and Zambra in 1875.

Thus at high temperatures a helium thermometer is of no special advantage.

The earliest form of testing instrument employed for this purpose was that of Giuseppe Tagliabue of New York, which consists of a glass cup placed in a copper water bath heated by a spirit lamp. The cup is filled with the oil to be tested, a thermometer placed in it and heat applied, the temperatures being noted at which, on passing a lighted splinter of wood over the surface of the oil, a flash occurs, and after further heating, the oil ignites.

He covered the bulb of the thermometer with layers of non-conducting material and left it immersed at the desired depth for a very long time to enable it to take the temperature of its surroundings.

The mean winter reading of the thermometer is 54.7, and accompanied as this is by clear skies and an absence of snow, the season is both pleasant and invigorating.

The total quantity of liquid employed need not in general exceed half a litre if a sufficiently delicate thermometer is available.

To the establishment of this new conception the improvement and general use of the clinical thermometer gave invaluable advantages.

On the mainland, and more especially on the eastern slope, the temperature is cooler, the thermometer seldom rising above 93° in the shade, and falling at night below 70°.

By these, and other instruments of precision, such as the thermometer, of which we have already spok en, the eminently scientific discipline of the measurement of functional movements, so difficult in the complex science of biology, has been cultivated.

A fever is usually diagnosed using a thermometer.

Use a thermometer to monitor temperatures near the plant too.

Along the coast the weather is very mild, the thermometer rarely falling to freezing-point even in winter.

It comes with two oven racks and a thermometer, so it can be used to prepare a variety of dishes with ease.

The thermometer is placed so that the bulb is near the neck of the retort or the side tube of the distilling flask.

Magnaghi introduced a convenient method of inverting the thermometer by means of a propeller actuated on beginning to heave in the line, and this form is used for all work at great depths.

In both forms it is usual to have the space between the bulb and the protecting sheath partly filled with mercury or alcohol to act as a conductor and reduce the time necessary for the thermometer to acquire the temperature of its surroundings.

One of the indirect methods of investigating currents is by taking account of the initial temperature of the current and following it by the thermometer throughout its course; hence the familiar contrast between warm and cold currents, of which the Gulf Stream and the Labrador current are types.

During the cold season the thermometer at night falls below the freezing point; little or no hot wind is felt before the end of April, and even then it ceases after sunset.

However, the climate is so dry in eastern Washington that the " sensible " variations are much less than those recorded by the thermometer.

He experimented with an air-thermometer, in which the temperature was defined by measurement of the length of a column of mercury; and he pointed out that the extreme cold of such a thermometer would be that which reduced the "spring" of the air to nothing, thus being the first to recognize that the use of air as a thermometric substance led to the inference of the existence of a zero of temperature.

His invention of the proportional compass or sector - an implement still used in geometrical drawing - dates from 1597; and about the same time he constructed the first thermometer, consisting of a bulb and tube filled with air and water, and terminating in a vessel of water.

Use an appliance thermometer to check the temperature of your refrigerator and freezer.

Purchase an inexpensive wine thermometer to measure the wine's temperature.

You can also purchase an infrared thermometer that measures the wine's temperature through the bottle.

Sometimes the design of the watch also features some other embellishments that indicate a nursing career, such as a tiny thermometer.

Snow is often seen, and the thermometer is frequently below freezing-point.

In only seven of the thirty years, 1871-1900, was the thermometer observed to sink below the freezing-point; frost thus occurs in the island even on the low grounds, though never for more than a few hours.

Rowland Himself Considered His Results To Be Probably Correct To One Part In 500, And Supposed That The Greatest Uncertainty Lay In The Comparison Of The Scale Of His Mercury Thermometer With The Air Thermometer.

For This Reason The Definition Of The Thermal Unit Will In The End Probably Be Referred To A Scale Of Temperature Defined In Terms Of A Standard Platinum Thermometer.

At this height, with the thermometer marking 9 degrees below freezing, he remained for a considerable time, making observations not only on magnetism, but also on the temperature and humidity of the air, and collecting several samples of air at different heights.

To find out if your child has a fever, place a thermometer under your child's armpit or use a special ear thermometer.

The first thing you should do is purchase an instant read thermometer.

Using your thermometer, check the temperature of the lamb.

You can buy a special thermometer for this at the drugstore, for about $15.

Use the candy thermometer to monitor the temperature of your wax.

Use a thermometer with an alarm to gauge this exact point.

It has been proved that these variations depend to a great extent on the chemical nature of the glass of which the thermometer is made.

If a mixture of A and B be melted and then allowed to cool, a thermometer immersed in the mixture will indicate a gradually falling temperature.

The second form of deep-sea thermometer is the self-registering maximum and minimum on James Six's principle.

Between the bulb and counterpoise is placed a thermometer, which serves to indicate the temperature of the liquid, and the instrument is provided with three weights which can be attached to the top of the stem.

Many Of The Uncertainties In The Reduction Of Older Experiments, Such As Those Of Regnault, Arise From Uncertainty In Regard To The Unit In Terms Of Which They Are Expressed, Which Again Depends On The Scale Of The Particular Thermometer Employed In The Investigation.

This unit is taken as being 4.180 joules per gramme-degree-centigrade on the scale of the platinum thermometer, corrected to the absolute scale as explained in the article Thermometry, Which Has Been Shown To Be Practically Equivalent To The Hydrogen Scale.

With Regard To The Scale Of Temperature, There Is Very General Agreement That The Absolute Scale As Realized By The Hydrogen Or Helium Thermometer Should Be Adopted As The Ultimate Standard Of Reference.

But As The Hydrogen Thermometer Is Not Directly Available For The Majority Of Experiments, It Is Necessary To Use A Secondary Standard For The Practical Definition Of The Unit.

The Conditions Of Use Of A Mercury Thermometer In A Calorimetric Experiment Are Necessarily Different From ' Those Under Which Its Corrections Are Determined, And This Difference Must Inevitably Give Rise To Constant Errors In Practical Work.

In 1815, in conjunction with Alexis Therese Petit (1791-1820), the professor of physics at the Ecole Polytechnique, he made careful comparisons between the mercury and the air thermometer.

The introduction of the clinical thermometer, which allows us to ascertain exactly the amount to which the temperature rises in fever or to which it is reduced by antipyretic measures, is to the physician like the compass to the sailor, and allows him to steer safely between two extremes.

During December the thermometer remains stationary, and in January begins to rise again, reaching its maximum in February.

You can use a bath thermometer, or your elbow.

You will need to purchase a rectal thermometer made by " Q-tip " .

Now we have all we need to build a digital thermometer.

These can be measured using a ' wet bulb globe thermometer ' .

Six years later he described the centigrade thermometer in a paper read before the Swedish Academy of Sciences (see Thermometry).

You will need to purchase a rectal thermometer made by " Q-tip ".

These can be measured using a ' wet bulb globe thermometer '.

The thermometer confirmed that she was in fact afebrile.

Thermometer-You can purchase a digital rectal one or a digital ear thermometer.

Test the temperature of the turkey with an instant read thermometer.

When using a thermometer, insert it through the foil.

Otherwise, use a thermometer and heat the oil to 375 degrees while the batter rests.

Glass thermometer should not be used since they can break and release mercury, which is toxic.

A thermometer probe may be taped on the skin to monitor body temperature.

Use a meat thermometer to check meat and cooking eggs until they are no longer runny.

Continue roasting until a thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the thigh reads 165 degrees.

You may even want to go with the laser thermometer option that somehow reads the temperature of your food (or pots, pans, oven, cooking partner, dog) by shooting a laser beam at it and determining the temperature.

If you do, however, drop your thermometer, make sure you recalibrate it.

Keep the food thermometer clean and store it in the little blue plastic sleeve that it comes with and it should last you for years.

Once you have your thermometer, you can test the temperature of your food.

If you happen to have an instant read thermometer, and you should always have one handy, do not let the chocolate go higher than these temperatures.

Roast the lamb for 25 to 30 minutes - until the temperature of the lamb registers 135 on an instant read thermometer.

The approach requires you to use a thermometer first thing in the morning before doing anything else.

You can use a regular digital thermometer or a specialized BBT thermometer to chart your basal body temperature on a regular basis.

If G strings raise the temperature, transparent swimwear might just break the thermometer.

Therefore, it's important to have a meat thermometer on hand to ensure that the turkey is fully cooked.

For added safety, test the temperature before carving, as it should be 165-degrees Fahrenheit.The easiest way to determine the temperature of the turkey is to use an instant-read meat thermometer.

When the turkey has been in the oven for close to the recommended time, remove the lid and insert the meat thermometer.

Some grills only have heat settings, so you need to regularly check the temperature inside the meat with a meat thermometer.

Typically, the only time you should open the grill or rotisserie is to baste the chicken or use a meat thermometer.

When preparing deep fried foods on the stovetop, you also have to deal with the cumbersome and somewhat difficult process using a thermometer to verify the temperature before cooking begins and control it throughout the process.

While each of the sets come with a few supplies, you may still need to purchase some others from a craft store including stirring sticks and a thermometer.

If you want to be extra careful and precise, use a thermometer to monitor the temperature of the wax.

It's a great idea to use a thermometer instead of just guessing or going by what you think the melting point of the wax you're using is.

You can pick up a candy making thermometer at most craft and cooking stores.

The candy thermometer can take the heat when checking the temperature of your wax.

Measure all of your ingredients carefully and make sure you have an accurate thermometer for taking the temperature of melted wax.

Find someone from your troop leadership who can make a fundraising thermometer for the cub scouts.

The watch offered date, alarm, stopwatch, chronometer, barometer, and thermometer functions.

Casio Men's Pathfinder Altimeter/Barometer/ Digital Compass Solar Digital Watch (Model PAG80-1V) - this watch features a built-in digital compass with an altimeter, barometer and thermometer.

The touch screen offers access to features like calibration options, chronograph and a thermometer.

A cold process soap kit will include oil, lye, soap molds, gloves, additives, and a thermometer.

Don't use a knife, fork or meat thermometer to test your meat, as this will allow the juices to run out and dry out your steaks.

In a heavy saucepan, heat the milk until it reaches 180 degrees Fahrenheit on a candy thermometer.

Bake on the center rack of the preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes until an instant-read meat thermometer reaches between 125F and 130F degrees for medium rare.

One of his discoveries led to the black-bulb thermometer.

But when solidification commences, the thermometer will cease to fall, it may even rise slightly, and the temperature will remain almost constant for a short time.

He now proposed to define absolute temperature as proportional to the reciprocal of Carnot's function, so as to agree as closely as possible with the scale of the gas thermometer.

Hecker took the opportunity of a voyage from Hamburg to La Plata, and in 1904 and 1905 of voyages in the Indian and Pacific Oceans to determine the local attraction over the ocean by comparing the atmospheric pressure measured by means of a mercurial barometer and a boiling-point thermometer, and obtained results similar to Scott Hansen's.

The principle is to have a constriction in the tube above the bulb so proportioned that when the instrument is upright it acts in every way as an ordinary mercurial thermometer, but when it is inverted the thread of mercury breaks at the constriction, and the portion above the point runs down the now reversed tube and remains there as a measure of the temperature at the moment of turning over.

Various modifications of this form of thermometer have been made by Chabaud of Paris and others.

It has the advantage over the thermometer on Six's principle that, being filled with mercury, it does not require such long immersion to take the temperature of the water.

The thermometer is also provided with four scales corresponding to the scales above mentioned.

If the mercury in the thermometer stand above this zero the spirit must be reckoned weaker than the hydrometer indicates by the number on the thermometer scale level with the top of the mercury, while C f if the thermometer indicate a temperature a? ?!

He studied the whole subject of thermometry critically; he introduced the use of an accurate air-thermometer, and compared its indications with those of a mercurial thermometer, determining the absolute dilatation of mercury by heat as a step in the process.

The methods of measurement, founded on rise of temperature, may be classed as thermometric methods, since they depend on the observation of change of temperature with a thermometer.

Among minor difficulties of the method may be mentioned the uncertainty of the thermal capacity of the calorimeter and stirrer, and of the immersed portion of the thermometer.

Other sources of uncertainty are, that the rate of loss of heat generally depends to some extent on the rate of fall of temperature, and that it is difficult to take accurate observations do a rapidly falling thermometer.

In the coast-lands the daily range of the thermometer is less marked than in the interior and the humidity of the atmosphere is much greater.

The graduation of a thermometer is determined by the freezing-point and the boiling-point of water, the interval between these being divided into a certain number of degrees, representing equal increases of temperature.

The temperature of the oil can best be ascertained by means of a platinum resistance thermometer.

The substitution, in 1670, of mercury for water completed the modern thermometer.

Dewar and Fleming, working at very low temperatures, were compelled to use the platinum thermometer, and expressed their results in terms of the platinum scale.

He states that the deviations from the formula were " quite within the limits of error introduced by the alteration of the resistance of the circuit with rise of temperature, the deviations of the mercury thermometers from the absolute scale, and the non-correction of the indications of the thermometer for the long column of mercury not immersed in the hot oil round the junctions."

A more accurate verification of these relations, both at high and low extremes of temperature, has become possible of late years owing to the development of the theory and application of the platinum resistance thermometer.

Leslie's main contributions to physics were made by the help of the "differential thermometer," an instrument whose invention was contested with him by Count Rumford.

Mercury thermometer A glass bulb filled with mercury is connected to a narrow evacuated glass capillary tube.

He is best known for inventing the short-stemmed clinical thermometer and revising ' The System Of Medicine ', the doctor's bible.

For extreme precision, the resistance element is made of platinum and the RTD known as a platinum resistance thermometer (PRT ).

The sensible heat of the incoming air, as measured by a dry bulb thermometer, is reduced.

How will you allow the user to calibrate the thermometer to his desired settings?

He invented a differential thermometer, a hygrometer and a photometer, and wrote An Experimental Inquiry into Heat in 1804.

The accuracy of the talking food thermometer is plus one degree Celsius over the range of minus 20 to plus 120 degrees Celsius.

This infrared thermometer is a neat bit of kit & brings advance temperature sensing technology to your fingertips.

I test the temp of my hands using a very accurate thermometer that I once used in the dark room.

For a liquid-in-glass thermometer, the property measured is the length of the liquid column inside a glass tube.

Simple examples of the time-relation are - the number of scholars present in a class, the height of the barometer, and the reading of the thermometer, on successive days.

Instead of the close protection from the outer air, the respirators, and the fancy diets of our fathers, the modern poitrinaire camps out in the open air in all weathers, is fed with solid food, and in his exercise and otherwise is ruled with minute particularity according to the indications of the clinical thermometer and other symptoms. The almost reckless reliance on climate, which, at Davos for instance, marked the transition from the older to the modern methods, has of late been sobered, and supplemented by more systematic attention to all that concerns the mode of life of the invalid.

Insert a meat thermometer into the thickest portion of the ham, making sure it does n't touch fat or bone.

Remember that incubator thermometer readings will not be the same as embryo temperatures when cooling or heating occurs.

Steve was concerned that he might be running a temperature, but the thermometer returned an afebrile reading.

You'll need a basal thermometer to get the most accurate readings and you must have had a minimum of three to four hours of sleep.

Low grade fever - the infant may feel physically warmer than normal to touch or have a temperature of 37.2 or degrees Celsius or slightly above on a digital thermometer.

These could include a bottle, pacifier, bottle brush, bulb syringe, thermometer, nail clippers, pacifier holder, booties, etc. Blindfold the mom-to-be, and watch her try to guess each of the items as she picks one up out of the bag.

Some may be electric/electronic, like a digital thermometer, but others are just new takes on old form factors.

If using a thermometer, place it at the meatiest part of the thigh, but do not let it touch the bone.

Roast, uncovered, in the pre-heated (350 degrees) oven for 50 to 70 minutes - until an instant read thermometer reads 150 degrees.

The roast is done when the meat thermometer reads 115 to 120 degrees for rare or 125 to 130 degrees for medium rare.

Using a thermometer is best, but if one is not available, you may check the temperature by dropping a little of the batter into the oil.

The winter climate of Ukiah is quite wet, with the thermometer often at 20 degrees to 24 degrees, and sometimes as low as 15 degrees above zero.

Most greenhouse owners purchase a simple thermometer and hygrometer that can be installed inside the greenhouse so they can keep an eye on temperature and relative humidity.

Using a meat thermometer is a good idea to make sure your chicken, pork or ground beef reaches this temperature.

Use a meat thermometer to ensure that meat, poultry and fish products are throughly cooked.

If your meat thermometer does not have temperature guidelines, visit What's Cooking America for an online temperature cooking chart.

Always cook poultry and meat to the recommended temperatures and check the internal temperature using a thermometer made for food.

Always use a meat thermometer to test for doneness.