By means of the radiation thermometer the radiating powers of different surfaces were observed.
By this means it can be clearly demonstrated that, up to the highest point to which it is safe to use a mercurial thermometer, the readings of the pyrometer scale and that of the thermometer are identical.
A minimum thermometer placed on, and another under, the grass showed that during the whole night a considerable difference was always maintained.
He removed the thermometer and, after he read it, he washed it at the sink and dipped it in a sterile tube before putting it back in its case.
Beardsley took his blood pressure and thrust a thermometer between Gramps' lips.
But if we make the discharge through the thermometer into a second jar, we obtain a quantity less than W.
In 1838 Riess constructed his electrical air-thermometer (the thermoelectrometer).
When the charge of a jar produces heat its energy is changed and its value by Riess's thermometer is decreased.
Thus the temperature of the gas approaching the plug was kept at a uniform temperature determined by a delicate thermometer; another thermometer gave the temperature in the steady stream beyond the plug.
The range of descent of the weight enabled the work consumed to be exactly estimated, and a sensitive thermometer in the liquid measured the rise of temperature; thus the heat produced was accurately determined.
When corrected to the corresponding Fahrenheit degree on the air thermometer it must be increased by somewhat less than one per cent.
All were to sleep in the open, for dog brigades never carry tents but bivouac on the snow with nothing but a blanket between the sleeper and the Aurora Borealis--though the thermometer may fall to sixty below zero.
It was a cold trip across the lake as the thermometer had dropped many degrees and a northwest wind was blowing in our faces.
The nights were cold, and on the 30th of June the thermometer was as low as 39 degrees at sunrise.
At Kuruman, when the thermometer stood above 84 degrees, rain might be expected; at Kolobeng, the point at which we looked for a storm was 96 degrees.
A high and very sharp wind blew over the flats; its piercing keenness was not caused by low temperature, for the thermometer stood at 80 degrees.
After several days of progressive heat here, on the hottest of which the thermometer probably reaches 103 degrees in the shade, a break occurs in the weather, and a thunderstorm cools the air for a time.
A preliminary lesson on the use of the thermometer may be necessary to show how to read it, and to develop the idea that it is an instrument for measuring heat.
A thermometer should be used, and the temperature kept at 65 degrees to 68 degrees, or, in special diseases, according to the doctor's orders.
An alcohol stove, saucepan, and thermometer are necessary for this lesson.
While the weather continued fine, the task was one of no great difficulty, though with a wintry wind blowing and the thermometer far down below the freezing-point, it was anything but a pleasant one.
Other stories were told, but their interest flagged, for people are not generally in a talkative mood with the thermometer above a hundred, and with a small supply of water.
Much snow falls, and the thermometer often marks from ten to fifteen degrees of frost.
There was no likelihood of either snow or rain marring the skating surface of the river, and the state of the thermometerprecluded a thaw.
The thermometer registers a subnormal temperature, the extremities are cold, and cold sweats bedew the body.
We may imagine that an ordinary thermometer would afford no result under the circumstances in which this instrument was to be exposed.
The president drew a thermometer from its case and consulted it.
But Barbicane had furnished himself with a spiritthermometer on Wafferdin's system, which gives the minima of excessively low temperatures.
In a few days the centigrade thermometer sank to 12° below zero, through the influence of a very keen north-east wind.
The weather very fine, but hot; the wind westerly; thermometer at sunset 74 degrees (84 degrees in the water.
The only thermometer I had was unfortunately broken shortly after we started; this loss was severely felt by me throughout the journey, as we had no means of ascertaining the exact temperature.
Thermometer at sunrise 51 degrees (60 degrees in the water); a cloudless sky.
The weather during the might changed from very mild and pleasant to extreme cold; the thermometer varying 24.
Last night was the coldest we had yet experienced, the thermometer being at six o'clock as low as 26.
The weather within the last week has become perceptibly warmer: the thermometer being seldom under 70 degrees at noon.
We were a little surprised at finding that a severe frost had taken place during the night, and that the thermometer was now as low as 28 degrees.
The thermometermust have been in excess of 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
In the latter line are the Crystal Palace and the Moulin Rouge, while in the former line, the thermometer often rises above the comfortable point.
I saw half a dozen of these creatures bound this way being taken from the baggage car at Guemes and laid in the sun on the depot platform, when the thermometer stood at 108 deg.
The climate, though hot, is better than that of Villa Concepcion, and it is doubtful if in the summer months the thermometer rises as high as it does in Asuncion.
I left Buenos Aires at three o'clock one afternoon when thethermometer registered 100.
The mercury expanded in the tube of the thermometer and the wind lost its chill.
The sun had not yet risen, and as the dogs swung into the trail Connie glanced at the little thermometer lashed firmly to the back of his sled.
For answer Waseche shifted his position, reached swiftly beneath the bottom of the robe, and withdrew from the outside a small spirit thermometer which he held up for the boy's inspection.
The thermometeroften ranged above 90 degrees in the shade.
The quicksilver in Fahrenheit's thermometer was frozen in the ball, which marks 39 degrees below zero.
I have frequently known the thermometer range from 16 degrees to 20 degrees below zero, for a week together.
The thermometer fell many degrees a change caused by the vicinity of the ice.
This thermometerwas the German class system of government, and the mercury was the Socialist vote.
Light that candle, you stupid creature; now hold your thermometer close to the flame; we shall soon see what the omen is worth.
The maid at once secreted the thermometerin her bosom.
Here the maid shook the thermometer with redoubled fury.
During the battle the thermometer stood at no degrees, and the heat was daily increasing.
He reached Meerpoor without a stop, and borrowing one of the General's horses, rode back again under a sun whose beams fell like flakes of fire, for the thermometer stood at above 130 degrees.
I wished I had not left my thermometer at the wagon; it would have been interesting to take a reading at midnight.
My paramount need just then was shade--even if such could only be found under the tilt of a wagon where the thermometer probably stood at 112 Fahrenheit.
The temperature of the blood is about 97 or 98 degrees, and if the temperature of the air be below the temperature of the blood, of course when the hand is applied to the thermometer the mercury rises.
In one of our journeys up the Pennsylvania Road we tried to make the thermometer budge as usual, but could not, which proved that the temperature of the air inside the Pullman car in which we traveled was the same as that of the blood.
As an illustration of the intense heat we experienced, I may mention that it was at one time perfectly impossible to make the thermometer budge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thermometer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
