WEST BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — The owner of a New York thermometer factory was sentenced Friday to three years of probation for failing to protect workers who were exposed to hazardous levels of mercury ...

Mercury can be found in a variety of non-laboratory items such as fluorescent light bulbs, thermometers, older pressure gauges, plumbing traps, manometers, barometer, thermostats, capacitors, and ...

BALTIMORE - It was one of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit's most famous inventions, in 1714. But after nearly 300 years on the market, the still-common mercury thermometer now appears headed for extinction.

FARGO — The principal of a liquid-in-glass thermometer is that the liquid inside a very narrow tube will contract and expand with temperature variation. The top of the liquid represents the ...

MidMichigan Medical Center will trade new digital thermometers for mercury thermometers Sunday at the Midland Mall s Wellness Day. The trade-in digital fever thermometers will be available at ...