NOUN
- thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube
How To Use mercury thermometer In A Sentence
- When a mercury thermometer breaks, it is difficult and very expensive to clean up properly.
- In some locations, the sale of mercury thermometers is banned completely.
- Temperature and humidity readings have been collected using a sling psychrometer, a simple device containing two mercury thermometers. Mount Washington
- All you need is a mercury thermometer, which you keep by your bed.
- The wax-coated telemeters were calibrated with a mercury thermometer over a range of 5-42 deg C.
- An old-fashioned mercury thermometer is fine for use by adults but not by children (who might bite the glass and ingest mercury, which is poisonous).
- Before you get up in the morning, put a mercury thermometer in your armpit when you wake and leave it there for 10 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
- Before you get up in the morning, put a mercury thermometer in your armpit when you wake and leave it there for 10 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
- Formerly a medicine-cabinet staple, these mercury thermometers have lately been ruled a public health hazard.
- Air temperature was recorded every hour using a mercury thermometer.
