Since mercury is toxic, most modern thermometers use alcohol, which is dyed red or blue for easy visibility. These thermometers are great for measuring body temperature, room temperature ...

Mercury thermometer — These items may contain significant amounts of mercury in breakable containment (glass). [Modern versions (i.e. digital and those using red liquid, which is alcohol to ...

WEST BABYLON, N.Y. — 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 ...

“Kessler Thermometer Corp. knowingly endangered the lives and health of their employees by ignoring basic safeguards to control hazardous mercury in the workplace and failed to acknowledge its ...