Mercury, which is used as a thermometric liquid, has the following characteristic

properties :
1. Mercury has a high boiling point of about 357oC and therefore can be used to measure
temperatures as high as 357oC.
2. Mercury has a freezing point of about 39oC and hence is suitable in thermometers to
record low temperatures (although not very low temperatures).
3. Mercury is opaque and has a shining silvery color of its own, making it clearly visible
in the capillary tube of a thermometer.
4. Mercury needs very little heat to expand and so it can easily measure the temperature
of a body without causing a decrease in the body's temperature.
5. Mercury does not stick to the side of the glass capillary tube of a thermometer.
Therefore, it allows accurate temperature measurement.
6. Mercury is a good conductor of heat.
7. Mercury is relatively expensive.
fluids which can be used for the measurement of lower temperature.
A coolant is a fluid which flows through or around a device to prevent its overheating,
transferring the heat produced by the device to other devices that use or dissipate it. An
ideal coolant has high thermal capacity, low viscosity, is low-cost, non-toxic, and
chemically inert, neither causing nor promoting corrosion of the cooling system. Some
applications also require the coolant to be an electrical insulator. While the term coolant
is commonly used in automotive and HVAC applications, in industrial processing, heat
transfer fluid is one technical term more often used, in high temperature as well as low
temperature manufacturing applications. Another industrial sense of the word covers
cutting fluids.The coolant can either keep its phase and stay liquid or gaseous, or can
undergo a phase transition, with the latent heat adding to the cooling efficiency. The
latter, when used to achieve below-ambient temperature, is more commonly known as
refrigerant.
Mercury in steel
- Available in dial sizes 4" & 6"
- Rigid Stem Type or Capillary Type
- Complete Stainless Steel Construction
- Dry or Liquid Filled (Glycerin or Silicon)
- Any standard thread connection
- Capillary Length up to 15 meters
- Ranges from -38 up to +600 deg C
Vapour pressure
The vapor pressure of a liquid is the pressure under which a liquid is in equilibrium with
its vapor phase. the vapor pressure is a function of the temperature of the liquid in
question. At a temperature corresponding pressure. At the temperature increase is an
increase in the transition from liquid to gas, a state of equilibrium is created between

liquid and vapor, as well as the pressure has increased. These thermometers are very
sensitive but the scale is not linear.The measurement accuracy is 1%. The typical
temperature range is from - 20 C to 280 C depending on the nature of the gaz (Butane
propane, ammonia...).
Gas-filled
Gas Filled Thermometer is designed for accurate temperature measurement by a flexible
capillary tube made of stainless steel and filled with nitrogen gas under pressure. The
capillary tube is wound to form a spiral spring. As the temperature rises, the pressure of
the gas inside the tube increases proportionally, causing the spring to unwind. This rotary
movement amplified by a mechanism, action the pointer of the thermometer.
Bimetallic thermometer
Bimetallic thermometers are made up of bimetallic strips formed by joining two different
metals having different thermal expansion coefficients. Basically, bimetallic strip is a
mechanical element which can sense temperature and transform it into a mechanical
displacement. This mechanical action from the bimetallic strip can be used to activate a
switching mechanism for getting electronic output. Also it can be attached to the pointer
of a measuring instrument or a position indicator. Various techniques such as riveting,
bolting, fastening can be used to bond two layers of diverse metals in a bimetallic strip.
However the most commonly used method is welding. Since two metals are employed to
construct a bimetallic strip, hence they are named so.