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Why can't you use mercury thermometers?
Mercury is toxic and poses serious health and environmental risks if the thermometer were to break. Safer alternatives, such as digital thermometers or alcohol-filled thermometers, are now commonly used instead.
Is mercury present in all types thermometers?
No, mercury is not present in all types of thermometers. While mercury thermometers are common, other types such as digital thermometers and infrared thermometers do not contain mercury. Mercury thermometers are being phased out due to environmental concerns.
Why is mercury not suitable for thermometers in Canada?
Mercury is not suitable for thermometers in Canada because it is toxic and poses environmental and health risks if it is released. In addition, being a liquid at room temperature, mercury may expand and contract too much with changes in temperature, affecting the accuracy of the thermometer readings. These factors have led to the phasing out of mercury thermometers in many countries, including Canada.
This instrument is often filled with mercury colored water or alcohol?
The instrument you are referring to is likely a thermometer. Thermometers are commonly filled with either colored alcohol or mercury to measure temperature changes based on the expansion or contraction of the liquid inside.
What are the two substance used in liquid column thermometers?
iodine and Mercury
What were thermometers once filled with?
I think that thermometers (liquid) were once filled with mercury. Xo, Smartiiz.
Which instrument is often filled with mercury or colored water or alcohol?
Thermometers are the instrument that is often filled with mercury, colored water, or alcohol. Most early thermometers were made with mercury.
Why do OSHA and EPA and the AMA all discourage the use of mercury filled clinical thermometers?
When mercury filled thermometers break, the mercury is released. Mercury is toxic to people, pets and the environment. There is a long history of mercury from broken thermometers and other medical devices being improperly dealt with, or even ignored. Since there are adequate replacements for mercury thermometers, OSHA, EPA, AMA and others discourage the use of mercury thermometers and encourage their replacement with thermometers using other technologies.
Why can't you use mercury thermometers?
Mercury is toxic and poses serious health and environmental risks if the thermometer were to break. Safer alternatives, such as digital thermometers or alcohol-filled thermometers, are now commonly used instead.
What type of thermometer is widely used in science classrooms?
Frequently thermometers filled with an alcohol; but also thermometers with mercury, with thermoresistance, thermocouples, etc.
Is mercury present in all types thermometers?
No, mercury is not present in all types of thermometers. While mercury thermometers are common, other types such as digital thermometers and infrared thermometers do not contain mercury. Mercury thermometers are being phased out due to environmental concerns.
What instrument will you use to get the temperature of the water?
A thermometer is typically used to measure the temperature of water. There are different types of thermometers such as digital thermometers, and mercury or alcohol-filled thermometers, that can be used depending on the specific requirements of the situation.
What is the state of mercury in a thermometers?
Mercury in thermometers is in a liquid state, since mercury is liquid at room temperature.
What thermometers are used in the medical field?
For similar reasons as any other field, to measure temperature. They are most often portable mercury or alcohol filled, sealed and graduated glass thermometers.
What are the four kinds of thermomether?
1. Alcohol or spirit thermometer 2. Mercury thermometer 3. Liquid crystal thermometer 4. Quartz thermometer 5. Reversing thermometer 6. Resistance thermometer
What is common in fishes and thermometers?
Mercury is common in both fish and thermometers. Although nowadays they make thermometers without mercury in them.
Why are digital thermometers used these days?
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?]
