The thermometer has a small bulb filled with either mercury (in older thermometers) or alcohol (in modern ones). When the temperature rises, the liquid expands and moves up the narrow tube.

WEST BABYLON, N.Y.-- Workers at a thermometer factory in West Babylon, New York who were exposed to airborne mercury blame their employer for "prioritizing profits over people." Their boss at the ...

Owner of Thermometer Factory Gets Probation for Exposing Workers to Mercury WEST BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — The owner of a New York thermometer factory was sentenced Friday to three years of probation ...

“Kessler Thermometer Corp. knowingly endangered the lives and health of their employees by ignoring basic safeguards to control hazardous mercury in the workplace and failed to acknowledge its ...

Mercury thermometers are no longer used because mercury is a toxic ... This will make them shiver and can make the temperature go higher. Never use alcohol baths or wipes because the alcohol can be ...

He also innovated by replacing alcohol with mercury, which improved accuracy and redesigned the thermometer with a cylindrical shape rather than the traditional spherical bulbs. Unlike previous ...

they received a digital thermometer in exchange. Mercury thermostats have levers or dials to change the temperature. If you remove the faceplate and see a glass capsule with a silver substance ...

It was this need that Fahrenheit met. He was not the first to make thermometers, the first to use alcohol or mercury, or to devise scales with fixed points, but his improvements were such as to ...

A Russian chess player is facing possible jail time and criminal charges after she allegedly used liquid mercury from a broken thermometer to poison a rival player during a large tournament ...