FARGO — The principal of a liquid-in-glass thermometer is that the liquid ... of mercury is around -38 degrees Fahrenheit, so a mercury thermometer is not useful in extremely cold weather.

And liquid mercury from those same breakages can ... And digital electronic thermometers and glass alcohol thermometers measure temperatures just as well as mercury instruments for household ...

Liquid mercury is commonly associated with glass thermometers. “Liquid mercury used to be a norm. It wasn’t anything uncommon and it didn’t really become anything on anyone’s radar until ...

the liquid contracts and moves down. The temperature scale on the glass tube shows the reading in degrees Celsius (°C) or Fahrenheit (°F). Since mercury is toxic, most modern thermometers use ...

Mercury thermometer — These items may contain significant amounts of mercury in breakable containment (glass). [Modern versions (i.e. digital and those using red liquid, which is alcohol to ...

Not one, not two, but three wretched digital thermometers failed miserably! (And good luck trying to buy a plain old liquid thermometer at CVS ... a little about gallium and how it has replaced ...

blow glass and during calibration and engraving of thermometers and hydrometers. Mercury is a silvery, heavy, odorless liquid. Mercury is found in some thermometers, manometers, barometers ...

But it's also a dangerous toxic nerve poison. People tend to associate mercury with its silvery liquid form — as found in old thermometers. But it was also used in electrical switches or relays ...