People of a certain age may remember Merthiolate and Mercurochrome in the household medicine chest. Whenever someone skinned a knee or scraped an elbow, one of these topical antiseptics was often ...

The mercury thermometer, long a fixture in household medicine cabinets and industrial settings, is going the way of the horse and buggy. The reason: Mercury released into the environment from a ...

Mercury exposure can cause potentially deadly health problems if the thermometer breaks. So if you’re still holding onto a glass thermometer containing mercury (some glass thermometers contain ...

Non-mercury thermometers can be used in most applications including, incubators, water baths, or other applications where mercury thermometers have been traditionally used. If your application ...

A two-year-old was saved due to early diagnosis and quick recovery at a Delhi hospital after he swallowed mercury when a ...

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 ...

It’s 3 a.m. 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, … ...

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. — The owner of a New York thermometer factory was sentenced Friday to three years of probation for failing to protect workers who were exposed to hazardous levels of mercury ...

We test thermometers for accuracy, based on their performance in comparison to a mercury thermometer, and consistency (or repeatability), meaning how much they differ from one reading to the next ...