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I was wondering; if a water is say at a temperature of 50 Celsius and we put two thermometers into it, one which is a mercury in glass and the other which is of alcohol (same mass of both constituents); when we break the thermometers directly after the readings are stabled and we measure what the temperature of the mercury and the alcohol is; is it the same? (If there is no heat loss or unreliability) I am not sure because heat is given by Q=mct and since Q is constant as said no heat loss as it is transferred into the thermometers and mass of both alcohol and mercury is same; but the specific heat capacity of the two are different so I think that the t will also differ even though kept in the same 50 degrees water (i.e. same heat energy). But is it correct? Just confirming.