Once upon a time, mercury thermometers were the most common way to check for fever.

In the past it was a big problem, because mercury thermometers needed a long time to find the temperature.

Next he took out a mercury thermometer and held it close to the body, measuring the air temperature.

For this purpose a mercury thermometer is usually mounted on the instrument.

"The mercury thermometer was left outside accidentally, and has been broken.

There is no justification any longer for using mercury thermometers in a lab.

A mercury thermometer, for example, is a simple heat-sensing instrument.

While mercury thermometers were once found throughout the world, many nations have banned them due to health concerns.

You might have a mercury thermometer where you can observe this effect.

One of which was a small mercury thermometer.

For precision work, mercury thermometers are sometimes still required.

It is hard to justify why you can still find mercury thermometers in pharmacies, but they are.

Mercury thermometers are still widely used for certain scientific applications because of their greater accuracy and working range.

He authored legislation to ban mercury thermometers, one of the first in the country.

She brought out an old-fashioned mercury thermometer and her stethoscope and began an examination.

Not even a bill banning the sale of mercury thermometers seemed enough to offset the legislative chill.

It is the same as the clinical mercury thermometer which one reads directly, or which can now present its reading electronically.

Do not use any mercury thermometers.

Each mercury thermometer contains approximately one gram of mercury.

Nationwide, mercury thermometers contribute 17 tons of mercury to solid waste each year.

Unlike most conventional mercury thermometers, a reversing thermometer is able to record a given temperature to be viewed at a later time.

As a rule, mercury thermometers are generally more reliable than spring-type thermometers.

This is unlike a normal mercury thermometer, in which the expansion and contraction of mercury itself indicates temperature.

He said the observations of 8,000 volunteers, most of whom use mercury thermometers, should be used for detailed studies of the climate.

Given that alternatives are available, it is to be welcomed that the mercury thermometer is consigned to the past.