mercury thermometer (n)
mercury-in-glass thermometer (n)

n03749807

type n
lex_filenum 06
def thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit
def mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube
Outgoing links
Hypernym thermometer
Hyponym Beckman thermometer; clinical thermometer, mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer
Part meronym bulb
Incoming links
Hypernym Beckman thermometer; clinical thermometer, mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer
Part holonym bulb
Hyponym thermometer

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