Eight states and fifteen municipalities have already enacted mercury thermometer bans, and eleven national retail chains have pledged only to sell mercury free thermometers. The Universities of ...

Eliminating even small amounts of mercury reduces the potential for mercury poisoning; the content of a single mercury thermometer can contaminate a twenty-acre lake. Mercury-free thermometers provide ...

Mercury in the glass thermometer that we use for checking body temperature is most lethal and can pose serious health problems if accidentally spilt Mercury in the glass thermometer that we use ...

They've been designed to make the process of taking a temperature quicker and less invasive than with traditional thermometers. If you're still using an old mercury-filled stick thermometer or a strip ...

The most convenient way to travel long distances is by plane ... You may be a little surprised to know, but you cannot carry a mercury thermometer in the plane. Why is this so, we will tell ...

So long as heat was considered a substance ... must be determined by some other means than the thermometer, and that a degree on the thermometer cannot be considered a unit of heat.