Liquid-in-glass thermometers are made of sealed glass and contain a fluid, usually mercury or red alcohol, whose volume changes relative to its temperature. The liquid expands as the temperature rises ...

Building a thermometer is a matter of precise technology—putting just the right amount of mercury into a specially designed glass tube, for instance—but determining which numbers to use on the ...

The basic design for this type of thermometer is a small-bore glass tube with a thin-walled glass bulb at the lower end. Typically, the liquid that fills is mercury or alcohol. As heat is transferred ...

SFU EHS will swap your mercury thermometers with non-mercury alternatives for free. Simon Fraser University is committed to eliminating non-essential uses of mercury and mercury-containing products.

The Barometer is calbrated in Inches of Mercury, and the thermometer in Reumur and Farenheit ... he may have bought it when in Wellington. The glass tube was broken and the mercury lost when ...

Equipment: A Galileo's thermometer (a sealed liquid filled glass cylinder containing sealed glass floats labeled 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 26 degrees C), a 4 liter ...

Read the instructions that come with it if you're unsure of how to use it. DON'T use a glass mercury thermometer because they've been known to break. Wash the thermometer off before using it ...