TERMS 1
Used to heat something slowly and evenly.
What is a hotwater bath?
The distance between two points.
What is Length?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
Most used in a lab.
What is a bulb thermometer?
Found in most schools and uses compound lenses to magnify objects.
What is a light microscope?
The lowest value up to the highest value called?
What is Range?
The units for a metric ruler.
What are CM and MM?
Easy to obtain a measurement.
What is an electronic balance or digital scale?
Consists of a strip of temperature sensitive liquid crystals.
What is a Liquid Crystal Display Thermometer?
Dark Blue Color
What is the hottest flame?
The value represented by the unnumbered graduations on the instrument?
What are Unnumbered increments?
The amount of space a liquid occupies.
What is Liquid Volume?
All the balance's indicator masses are to the left and aligned with zero's.
What is the first thing to do before using a triple beam balance?
Measures temperatures based on colors given off by glowing-hot objects.
What is a pyrometer?
Gives Great 3D images.
What is the SEM?
The total amount the can be measured with an instrument?
What is Capacity?
The expression of liquid volume
What are L and mL?
You press this button to ignore the mass of a container.
Thin strip of two different metals and is usually found in home thermostats.
What is a bimetallic strip?
Provides a safe heat source and is never left alone.
What is a Bunsen Burner
The value represented by the numbered graduations on the instrument?
What are Numbered increments?
The lowest point on the curve that is read at eye level.
What is a meniscus?
The pointer drops below 0 on the triple beam balance.
What is moving the mass back one notch?
Measures the infrared radiation given off by hot objects, often using lasers.
What is an infrared thermometer?
Electrons pass through a very thin specimen.
What is a TEM?