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Q: How do you deal with mercury thermometer which smashed on the bench?
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How should you dispose of an old thermometer?

It depends on the thermometer. If the thermometer is made of glass and filled with a silver liquid, that liquid is mercury. Your local environmental protection organization might be able to tell you where you could safely dispose of it. Otherwise, you might check with companies that deal with scrapping out old cars, which contain mercury switches, or fluorescent bulbs, which contain mercury. If the thermometer does not have a silver liquid in it, it doesn't contain much or any mercury, and it should be possible to toss it with your normal household trash. When a glass thermometer has a red or blue liquid, the liquid is alcohol or, rarely, some other organic liquid such as kerosene. It's not that much of a threat. Metal coil thermometers with dial pointers are just scrap metal when you need to dispose of them. Electronic thermometers have batteries, which might have some mercury but might not. If in doubt, take the battery out and put it in a battery recycling bin. If you must throw it out in the trash, at least the amount of mercury in it (if any) will be small. The circuits themselves contain the same contaminants and heavy metals that any piece of electronics would, but since the amount of circuitry in an electronic thermometer is small, the amount of waste in one is small also.


How do you calculate in thermometer?

The answer depends on what you want to calculate: there is not a great deal of scope for calculation.


Why is a bench drill smaller than a pillar drill?

Because it sits on a bench, not on the floor.


Where can I purchase a woodworking bench?

You can purchase a woodworking bench from many different online retailers. Amazon.com provides a great deal of selection from many different retailers.


How do you you deal with the liquid mercury scattered in the lab?

Mercury must be collected with a piece of copper dipped before in mercury to form an amalgam on the surface.


How do you deal with the liquid mercury scattered in the lab?

Mercury must be collected with a piece of copper dipped before in mercury to form an amalgam on the surface.


What other challenges do you think would be for engineers designing a spacecraft to travel to Mercury?

Making it able to travel to Mercury and deal with Mercury's temperature.


Why isn't a thermometer part of science?

Thermometers are tools used in science. For example it may be important to attain specific temperatures or record temperatures in a chemistry experiment. A physics experiment may deal with viscosities at different temperatures. Digital thermometers are slowly replacing older Mercury thermometers for many uses because of increased accuracy, and less risk of Mercury contamination.


If you have a bench warrant and it is 25 years old do they reopened the case that you were arrested for or do they just deal with the bench warrant and vacate it?

The police would have to have evidince (police witness) and the will to do so, it would probable be vacated


What events marked the end of the new deal?

Roosevelt tried to pack the courts with only those he wanted to see on the bench. That was the beginning of the end of the New Deal. Shortly after that, a recession began.


Will astronauts go to Mercury?

not right now they have to find a solution to deal with heat radiation


What does Tom Brady drive?

I once saw him at a restaurant with an Escalade. He actually has a sponsorship deal with Audi, and drives an A8 (at least until today, September 9, when it got smashed up.