Many pharmacies now carry only sterile digital replacements or the less accurate ones with red glop in the bulb. Mercury thermometers have held out in labs and industry: the National Institute of ...

But the purpose of thermostats is temperature control, and these are still great at doing just that. So here are some mercury-bulb thermostat myths I want to address, that you may have heard of: ...

In actuality, this liquid is more often alcohol than mercury. Mercury is toxic, and so would be dangerous should the thermometer bulb break. Another advantage of alcohol is that the freezing ...

Mercury and mercury-containing devices have historically been used in laboratories and shops to measure temperature, pressure, liquid density, and humidity. Other common sources of mercury include ...

the increasingly popular measurement of the wet-bulb globe temperature takes into account more factors than how high the mercury is. It factors in temperature, relative humidity, wind, cloud cover ...

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 ...