Replace mercury thermometers with digital ones
Your two-year-old is crying. Her forehead is hot and you fear she’s running a fever. You rush to get a thermometer. You grab one, but in your haste, you drop it. It breaks, ...
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John Wheeler: The mercury in a thermometer is usually alcohol
Mercury is toxic to the touch and would be dangerous should the thermometer bulb break. Another advantage of alcohol is that the freezing temperature of mercury is around -38F, so a mercury ...
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Mercury Information
Mercury can be found in a variety of non-laboratory items such as fluorescent light bulbs, thermometers, older pressure gauges, plumbing traps, manometers, barometer, thermostats, capacitors, and ...
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New York thermometer factory workers exposed to mercury accuse employer of prioritizing profits
WEST BABYLON, N.Y.-- Workers at a thermometer factory ... guilty in Central Island to first-degree reckless endangerment for exposing his workers to airborne mercury. He was sentenced to three ...