If the bulb is red, blue, purple, green or any other color, it is not a mercury thermometer. Mercury thermometerscan be used to determine body temperature (fever thermometers), liquid temperature, and vapor temperature.
Mercury is not used in thermometers, because mercury is poisonous.
Mercury is used in thermometers.
In normal and some medical thermometers Mercury is used. That is why you may want to consider using electric thermometers which are more commonly used. They use no mercury.
mercury was used for thermometers and baramoters
Most thermometers used to contain Mercury until it was found to be toxic.
Mercury thermometers are rarely used, except in lab thermometers. For human use, they have been replaced by dyed alcohol glass thermometers, or electronic digital thermometers.
the element used in termometers is Mercury.
in thermometers.
Digital thermometers have replaced mercury thermometers because mercury is toxic. [Personal commentary: digital thermometers are not accurate and mercury thermometers are so how many people are being harmed by not knowing their temperature versus how many would be harmed by the mercury if accurate thermometers were still used?]
mercury is used in thermometers
Water was initially used and later on alcohol was used.
Mercury has many uses but the first one that comes to mind, is the use for this metal in thermometers. Mercury is, to my knowledge, the only metal that can be a liquid at room temperature. This metal is also used in making other instruments such as barometers.