The mercury-in-glass or mercury thermometer is a thermometer that uses the thermal expansion and contraction of liquid mercury to indicate the temperature...

temperature in space). A thermometer has two important elements: (1) a temperature sensor (e.g. the bulb of a mercury-in-glass thermometer or the pyrometric...

The alcohol thermometer or spirit thermometer has a similar construction and theory of operation as a mercury-in-glass thermometer. However, the thermometric...

and glass blower, made contributions to thermometers as well. He created an alcohol thermometer in 1709 and later innovated the mercury thermometer in 1714...

inventing mercury-in-glass thermometers more accurate and superior to spirit-filled thermometers at the time. The popularity of his thermometers led to the...

temperature values. In contrast, the range of a typical mercury-in-glass thermometer is fixed, being set by the calibration marks etched on the glass or the marks...

dilatometer is the mercury-in-glass thermometer, in which the change in volume of the liquid column is read from a graduated scale. Because mercury has a fairly...

the forehead. These are safer than a mercury-in-glass thermometer[citation needed], and may be advantageous in some patients, but do not always give...

temperatures since the last reset. Six's Maximum and Minimum thermometer consists of a U-shaped glass tube with two separate temperature scales set along each...

of mercury exposure to that population. Mercury thermometers and mercury light bulbs are not as common as they used to be, and the amount of mercury they...

being measured because the inductance is mutual. In thermodynamics, a standard mercury-in-glass thermometer must absorb or give up some thermal energy to...

A reversing thermometer is a mercury-in-glass thermometer which, unlike most conventional mercury thermometers, has the unique ability to record a temperature...

biomagnification. Mercury is used in thermometers, barometers, manometers, sphygmomanometers, float valves, mercury switches, mercury relays, fluorescent...

(10 July 2007). "EU bans mercury in barometers, thermometers". Reuters. Retrieved 12 September 2017. "Ban on sale of mercury measuring instruments - MEPs...

process of making mercury thermometers for export around the world. The exposé of the environmental abuse led to the closure of the factory in 2001 and opened...

thermometer. Such scales are valid only within convenient ranges of temperature. For example, above the boiling point of mercury, a mercury-in-glass thermometer...

(1800): Evolution of the thermometer 1592–1743. The Chemical pub. co., Easton, Pennsylvania. pp. 85–91. "Mercury-in-glass thermometer, 1743–1799". Science...

alcohol thermometers which were reproducible (i.e. two would give the same temperature) 1714 — Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the mercury-in-glass thermometer...

ranges. In contrast, ambient temperature is the actual temperature, as measured by a thermometer, of the air (or other medium and surroundings) in any particular...

of a mercury-in-glass thermometer as their object. They used a bellows to speed up the evaporation. They lowered the temperature of the thermometer bulb...

of a liquid (coefficient of thermal expansion). Alcohol thermometer Mercury-in-glass thermometer Pyranometer principle: solar radiation flux density relates...

switches from using alcohol to mercury as the thermometric fluid in his thermometers, creating the first mercury-in-glass thermometer. Andrew Robinson builds...

1714: In Amsterdam, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the mercury-in-glass thermometer, which remains the most reliable and accurate thermometer until...

devices for measuring temperature is the glass thermometer. This consists of a glass tube filled with mercury or some other liquid, which acts as the working...

were later found inaccurate. The boiling point of mercury limits the mercury-in-glass thermometer to temperatures below 356 °C, which is too low for...

megathermal (macrothermal) melting mercury (element) (see "Clean Air Act" under United States) mercury-in-glass thermometer mesopause mesoscale convective...

(1686–1736), The Netherlands – Fahrenheit temperature scale, Mercury-in-glass thermometer Michael Faraday (1791–1867), UK – electric transformer, electric...

November 2020). "The diagnostic accuracy of digital, infrared and mercury-in-glass thermometers in measuring body temperature: a systematic review and network...

shear stress. 1714 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit develops the mercury-in-glass thermometer along the Fahrenheit temperature scale. 1718–1719 – James Jurin...

finally, three mercury-in-glass thermometers. Through his experiment Herschel found that red light had the highest degree of temperature change in the light...