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If you quickly plunge a room-temperature thermometer into very hot water, the mercury level will go down briefly before going up to a final reading. Why?

If you quickly plunge a room-temperature thermometer into very hot water, the mercury
level will go down briefly before going up to a final reading. Why?

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Nirmal Singh.
askIITians Faculty 44 Points
10 years ago
Because Thermometer and water will come at thermal equilibrium then after mercury level will go up due to increase in temperature.
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Nirmal Singh
Askiitians faculty

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