Thermometer

[ADDkid]

Does anybody know how to fix a thermometer, my reads at 101C with boiling water, and is always one degree off. I tried using heat to make the mercury reach all the way to the top, but was no use.

[embezzler]

to your reading. they are not always accurate, at least the ones using liquid arent and steam has a higher temp than water and this is condensing on the thermometer boosting it a bit

[ADDkid]

It use to be accurate, I usually check before any major project, to tell you the truth I have worked many many many times in a lab and not once has it been off until now. ADDkid

[ApprenticeCook]

Shit happens... if your that touched about 1^oC buy a new thermometer, only a few dollars...

Otherwise yeah just note down that it is that margin out and allow for that extra error in your emperiments.

-AC

[Rhodium]

The temperature of boiling water fluctuates with the local barometric pressure (and your position relative to sea level).