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What do people use mercury element for?
Mercury is used in thermometers, barometers, and some electrical switches. It is also used in some medical and industrial equipment, as well as in the production of chlorine and caustic soda. However, due to its toxicity, its use is being phased out in many applications.
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 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.
What are the two substances used in a liquid column thermometer?
The two substances used in a liquid column thermometer are mercury and alcohol. Mercury thermometers use mercury as the liquid inside the glass tube, while alcohol thermometers use colored alcohol such as ethanol or dyed ethanol.
The chemical symbol for element Mercury is?
Hg is the chemical symbol for mercury
What is Mercury used in?
Mercury was commonly used in thermometers and barometers. However, because it is poisonous, people are trying to use it in less things now.
What mercury used in?
Mercury was commonly used in thermometers and barometers. However, because it is poisonous, people are trying to use it in less things now.
What does the metal Mercury do?
Mercury vapors are toxic for people but it's widely used in everyday life (thermometers) and in science too. Also people use it in chemistry because it's very well understood.
Why don't thermometers use Mercury?
Mercury is Toxic.
Who and when did people visit Mercury?
Nobody has visited 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.
What does mercury not have?
people!
Is there people on mercury?
no
Is Mercury in immunization shots?
Yes. They use it to preserve the shots, but they don't have to use mercury, they just use it to save money.
Can people see the sun from mercury?
If you were on Mercury, the Sun would be huge!
What people think about the use of mercury?
You would have to ask around about what people think, but mercury (Hg, atomic #80) is a transition metal, and one of only two elements which are liquids at room temperature and standard pressure. It is toxic to humans by contact with skin, which absorbs it quickly. Its most common everyday use is in thermometers.
How would you use Mercury in a sentence?
Mercury is one of the planets in our Solar System.Mercury is HotThe Mercury was the smallest planet
