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How Do We Measure Temperature?

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How do the thermometers in the kitchen or the doctor's office work? Thanks to the laws of thermodynamics, thermometers respond to heat moving from hot to cold as a means of measuring temperature. Clever physical chemists and engineers and even Einstein have made thermometers from a variety of materials. Watch the latest Reactions video here: https://youtu.be/ibmubP26R9M.

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