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A thermometer is placed directly sunlight will it read the temperature of the air or of the sun or of something else??
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A thermometer is placed directly sunlight will it read the temperature of the air or of the sun or of something else??

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It will read the temperature of the atmosphere.It is unable to read the temperature of the sun because some of the heat energy from the sun is absorbed by the layer of air molecules on Earth.
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