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Atmospheric Temperature vs. Altitude

By Janice VanCleave

Celsius Thermometer

Temperature is a physical property of how hot or how cold matter is. Cold Objects have a low temperature. Hot Objects have a high temperature. A thermometer is the instrument used to measure temperature.There are several different thermometer scales, the diagram shows a model of a Celsius thermometer. Note that this scale is marked in […]

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