Yes, alcohol is commonly used nowadays.
Alcohol or mercury are commonly used as the fluids in thermometers. Mercury was commonly used in the past but is being phased out due to its toxicity. Alcohol is a safer alternative that is used in most modern 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 is used in thermometers.
mercury was used for thermometers and baramoters
Most thermometers used to contain Mercury until it was found to be toxic.
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 the element commonly used in liquid-in-glass thermometers.
mercury is used in thermometers
Mercury thermometers are still used in some industrial applications and laboratories due to their accuracy and ability to measure high temperatures. However, their use is declining due to the potential health and environmental risks associated with mercury exposure. In many situations, digital thermometers or other types of non-mercury thermometers are used instead.
Typically, thermometers use either mercury or alcohol as the liquid inside the glass tube to measure temperature. Mercury thermometers are being phased out due to the toxicity of mercury, with alcohol thermometers being a safer alternative.
Mercury, if it enters your body, causes severe brain problems, and is usually deadly, so it is a poisonous material. it is no longer used in thermometers because thermometers were breaking and too many people were dying.