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What liquid used to be in thermometers?
Most thermometers used to contain Mercury until it was found to be toxic.
What mineral is used to make thermometers?
mercury
What liquid used to be in most thermometers?
Most thermometers used to contain mercury until it was found to be toxic.
What liquid element is used in thermometers.?
Mercury (Atomic number 80) is still used in some thermometers.
What instrument uses Mercury?
Historical, both thermometers and barometers have used mercury.
Why mercury is used in milk?
Mercury is highly poisonous and should not be used in milk production. The only place where mercury might be used in milk production is in mercury thermometers and where possible, these should be replaced with alcohol thermometers.
Why is mercury not used in thermometers any more?
Mercury is not used in thermometers, because mercury is poisonous.
What liquid mental is used for thermometers?
Mercury is used in thermometers.
Is Mercury 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.
What was Mercury used for?
mercury was used for thermometers and baramoters
What liquid used to be in thermometers?
Most thermometers used to contain Mercury until it was found to be toxic.
How are mercury thermometers used today?
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 For human use, they have been replaced by dyed alcohol glass thermometers, or electronic digital thermometers.
What chemical element is used in thermometers?
the element used in termometers is Mercury.
Where is mercury used?
in thermometers.
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?]
What are the important uses of Mercury?
mercury is used in thermometers
Before mercury what was used to fill thermometers?
Water was initially used and later on alcohol was used.
