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, … ...

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

“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 ...

A two-year-old was saved due to early diagnosis and quick recovery at a Delhi hospital after he swallowed mercury when a thermometer broke in his mouth. Doctors said the toddler initially had no ...

Clinical Thermometer Analog or Digital. A clinical thermometer can be either digital or analog. Digital clinical thermometers are more commonly used today compared to analog ones. Analog thermometers ...

The mercury thermometer consists of a bulb from which a thin glass tube extends, and inside which is the metal mercury. The volume of this metal inside the tube is less than the volume of the bulb.

An analog thermometer operates by using a graduated scale and the properties of mercury and helps to measure temperature. As the temperature changes, the mercury inside the thermometer moves up or ...