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You take a capillary glass tube with a bore of -0.5 millimeters or smaller, a propane torch, a file and a pair of goggles. Then, you build your own thermometer. While temperatures outside were hanging ...

When you think of a thermometer, you might imagine a thin glass tube with mercury, but it turns out we can make our own thermometer with items that are mostly found just around the house. Our ...