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 ...

BALTIMORE — It was one of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit’s most famous inventions, in 1714. Now, after nearly 300 years on the market, the still-common mercury thermometer appears headed for extinction.

Federal OSHA inspectors cited a Long Island thermometer manufacturer for overexposing their employees to elemental mercury (Hg) at its West Babylon, New York facility. OSHA determined Kessler ...

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 broken ...

FARGO — The principal of a liquid-in-glass thermometer is that the liquid inside a very narrow tube will contract and expand with temperature variation. The top of the liquid represents the ...

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Metallic mercury has high chronic toxicity and can cause significant damage to the central nervous system if prolonged exposure occurs. Mercury has a relatively high vapor pressure at room temperature ...