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    Thermal expansion is the working principle of the mercury thermometer. When placed in cold water, the liquid mercury contracts and moves down the tube, and when placed in warm water, the mercury expands and rises up the tube. Heat transfer can cause thermal expansion or phase changes in materials, such as water changing from solid ice to liquid to gas as heat is added or removed. The amount of heat needed to change a material's temperature is called its heat capacity or specific heat capacity.

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    Thermal expansion is the working principle of the mercury thermometer. When placed in cold water, the liquid mercury contracts and moves down the tube, and when placed in warm water, the mercury expands and rises up the tube. Heat transfer can cause thermal expansion or phase changes in materials, such as water changing from solid ice to liquid to gas as heat is added or removed. The amount of heat needed to change a material's temperature is called its heat capacity or specific heat capacity.

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    Thermal expansion is the working principle of the mercury thermometer. When placed in cold water, the liquid mercury contracts and moves down the tube, and when placed in warm water, the mercury expands and rises up the tube. Heat transfer can cause thermal expansion or phase changes in materials, such as water changing from solid ice to liquid to gas as heat is added or removed. The amount of heat needed to change a material's temperature is called its heat capacity or specific heat capacity.

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    Thermal Expansion, the Working Principle of the Mercury Thermometer

    When the bulb is placed in cold water, the liquid contracts and so it goes down the tube. In physics, this is called thermal
    expansion, another effect of heat transfer.

    Another change that may occur when heat is added to or taken out from an object is phase change. For example, water
    can change from solid (ice) to liquid (water) or from liquid to gas (steam).

    Figure 5. The graph shows that the ice absorbs heat as evidenced by the temperature rise; the temperature remains the
    same when ice starts to melt and until all the ice has melted; then the temperature rises again until water boils.

    The amount of heat needed by a material to increase its temperature by a degree is called heat capacity (C). To be more
    specific, the term specific heat capacity (c) is used, and this refers to the amount of heat required to increase the
    temperature of one unit mass of a given material by one Celsius degree.

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