How clinical thermometer retains its reading even after taken out from mouth?

The kink is used near the bulb in a clinical thermometer's capillary tube. It allows the rise in the mercury but stops from falling the mercury.

That's why the clinical thermometer retains its reading even after being taken out from the mouth.

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Updated on: 10-Oct-2022

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