In actuality, this liquid is more often alcohol than mercury. Another advantage of alcohol is that the freezing temperature of mercury is around -38F, so a mercury thermometer is not useful in ...

Another advantage of alcohol is that the freezing temperature of mercury is around -38 degrees Fahrenheit, so a mercury thermometer is not useful in extremely cold weather.

Spirit thermometers use a non-toxic alcohol instead of mercury to register the temperature. Like liquid mercury, the alcohol expands in volume as it gets warmer, causing the liquid to move up the ...

An added benefit of this proposed change was reducing the potential release of mercury to the environment from mercury thermometers. EPA finalized the proposed changes to EPA Test Methods 0010 ...

There are thermometers out there that don’t use mercury or alcohol to get a temperature reading. So how do such gadgets work? Joe Snedeker posed that ques ...

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University of Alabama researchers believe they have developed an environmentally friendly alternative to thermometers that use mercury or alcohol. The new thermometer uses an ionic liquid to ...

Spirit thermometers use a non-toxic alcohol instead of mercury to register the temperature. Like liquid mercury, the alcohol expands in volume as it gets warmer, causing the liquid to move up the ...