Download or read book Fire and Ice! Measuring Temperatures in the Lab written by Jill Sherman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measuring the temperature of different types of matter is a key component of many different branches of science, especially chemistry. However, for a long time, scientists could only tell if something was hot or cold and didn't have a way to tell precisely hot or how cold that thing was. Today, we use thermometers in the Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin scales to measure temperature. Diagrams and fact boxes help readers understand the practical uses of each scale and how to safely measure temperature in the lab.