Thermometer — Questions and answers

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How did Fahrenheit's thermometer help doctors make better decisions?

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  1. It gave them new types of medicine.
  2. It let them guess a patient's temperature more accurately.
  3. It helped them precisely measure a patient's temperature instead of guessing. ✓
  4. It made patients recover faster.

Answer: It helped them precisely measure a patient's temperature instead of guessing.

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Besides helping doctors, what other areas found Fahrenheit's thermometer very useful?

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  1. Making music and painting pictures.
  2. Cooking food and baking cakes.
  3. Predicting weather and controlling temperatures in brewing. ✓
  4. Building houses and making furniture.

Answer: Predicting weather and controlling temperatures in brewing.

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What important idea from Daniel Fahrenheit still helps us today?

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  1. That mercury is the only material for thermometers.
  2. That all old inventions are eventually thrown away.
  3. That heat can be precisely measured and made standard. ✓
  4. That doctors are the only ones who need to measure temperature.

Answer: That heat can be precisely measured and made standard.

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