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Mercury is used for wobbler (fishing) lures, barometers, diffusion pumps, fluorescent lamps, street lights, advertising signs, and many other things. Mercury used to be common in thermometers but was replaced with any one of a number of liquids.

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Why is Mercury used in a battery?

mercury is only used in a mercury battery


What was Mercury used for?

mercury was used for thermometers and baramoters


Is mercury used in piping?

Mercury is not used in piping.


What is the weakness of mercury?

Mercury is an element and is very poisonous. It is not used as a drug.


Why is mercury used in thermometres?

Mercury thermometres aren't used much, because the mercury inside is poisones, But the reason that mercury used to be used is because Mercury expands rapidly, conserning the temperature e.g. if it gets hotter, the Mercury expands, so there is more of it. So, when you're measuring the tempurature, you're actually measuring how much mercury is there, therefore telling you what the temperature.


What are the important uses of Mercury?

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How is zinc used in the reduction of mercury?

Zinc is used in the reduction of mercury by forming an amalgam with mercury, which allows the mercury to be easily separated from other materials. This process helps to extract and purify mercury from its ores.


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.


Before mercury what was used to fill thermometers?

Water was initially used and later on alcohol was used.


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.


Which liquid is used in thermometers along with mercury?

What is the new liquid used in athermometer than mercury?


What liquids are used in thermometer?

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