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What do they use instead of mercury thermometer?
Digital thermometers, infrared thermometers, and alcohol or galinstan thermometers are commonly used as alternatives to mercury thermometers due to the environmental and health risks associated with mercury.
What chemical is used in thermometers?
Mercury is traditionally used in thermometers to measure temperature due to its high thermal expansion and conductivity properties. However, due to its toxic nature, many countries have shifted to safer alternatives such as alcohol or digital thermometers.
What is the name of the liquid in a thermometer?
The red liquid in a liquid-in-glass thermometer is mineral spirits or ethanol alcohol mixed with red dye. A grey or silver liquid inside the thermometer is mercury. Mercury thermometers are not used anymore due to the dangers associated with mercury.
What type of liquid do you use in a thermometer?
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.
Does a red thermometer smell?
If it is a modern version, yes. Most "air temperature" thermometers use colored alcohol mixes instead of mercury (the vapor of which can be very toxic).
What is the red stuff in meat thermometers?
The red stuff in most thermometers is alcohol. The silver stuff is Mercury.
What do you call the thermometers with the red stuff in it?
Mercury is a silver-white to dim substance. In the event that your thermometer is loaded up with a red fluid, your thermometer contains red colored liquor or mineral spirits and not mercury.
Do you put thermometers in or outside?
Inside
What is the primary element in thermometers?
I think you're asking which element is inside of thermometers. If sooo, it's mercury =]
What are facts about mercury the substance?
1. It is the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature. 2. It's is hightly toxic. 3. It's used in the thermometers with the red liquidy stuff.
Mercury's chemical composition is?
it is made up of mercury the stuff that used to be in thermometers
What liquid is inside thermometers?
If the liquid is silver, it is liquid mercury (Hg). If the liquid is red, it is coloured ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH).
What is the liquid in a thermomether called?
Some thermometers use mercury, in these the liquid is silvery. Some thermometers use a red dyed alcohol solutioin.
What materials are inside oven thermometers?
Wire and a small device called a 'thermistor'
Does skeleton store red blood cells?
Store? No. However, the bone marrow, the spongy stuff INSIDE the bones, does MAKE red blood cells.
Is mercury red in thermometers?
The planet Mercury is grey, similar in colour and general appearance to our moon. Red Mercury is a chemical made of Iodine and Mercury. It was used as a medicine a long time ago before people realised it was actually poisonous. It is either in the form Mercury(I) iodide or Mercury(II) iodide.
What do they use instead of mercury thermometer?
Digital thermometers, infrared thermometers, and alcohol or galinstan thermometers are commonly used as alternatives to mercury thermometers due to the environmental and health risks associated with mercury.
