It can easily be seen, it expands quickly, it does not stick on the glass, it can easily be seen
Mercury
Mercury is no longer used much in thermometers due to the poisonous compounds that it forms. When I grew up, in Chemistry at school and at the doctors there were mercury thermometers and alcohol thermometers.
iodine and mercury
Mercury does not evaporate as fast as alcohol, so mercury thermometers stay accurate longer.
Mercury was regularly used in thermometers in the past, but it is poisonous and is not used so often nowadays, as different types of thermometer are produced.
A mercury thermometer is used to measure temperature.
Mercury is used in thermometers. The mercury is the red substance in the thermometer that rises when you put it in your mouth.
The liquid commonly used in a thermometer is mercury or COLOURED ALCOHOL.
Mercury and alcohol
A mercury thermometer can go down to -30 deg C
mercury
Mercury
toxic poison
Alcoholic thermometers are more accurate than mercury thermometers
it is used in liquid form as in room temperature the mercury is in liquid
Mercury
mercury