1. State similarities and differences between the laboratory thermometer and the clinical thermometer.
Simillarities :-
i) In both laboratory thermometer and clinical thermometer mercury is used
ii) Both laboratory and clinical thermometer consists of a long, narrow uniform tube of glass.
Differences :-
i) The least count of both the thermometer is different.
ii) Range of the temperature in a laboratory thermometer is from whereas in clinical thermometer, it is from
iii) Clinical thermometer is used to measure body temperature whereas laboratory thermometer is not used for such purposes