General Riddles

I am fair and shiny. People use me to find how hot they are. Some call me God. Who am I?

I am deaf, dumb and blind. But I am very shiny and always speak the truth. Who am I?

I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

Place a word with 4 letters in between the two words so that it can be used as a prefix and suffix to make two new words. SPOILS_______ION

If someone robbed you in the shower, what would you be?
An eye wetness.

I am in the beginning of sorrow and sadness. You will find me in happiness also. You will find me in sun and stars but not in moon. I am in summer and spring but not in fall or winter. Who am I?
The alphabet S.

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

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