People of a certain age may remember Merthiolate and Mercurochrome in the household medicine chest. Whenever someone skinned a knee or scraped an elbow, one of these topical antiseptics was often ...

People of a certain age may remember Merthiolate and Mercurochrome in the household medicine chest. Whenever someone skinned ...

According to Research by SNS Insider, rising healthcare awareness, technical innovation, and legislative changes toward mercury-free devices are driving the growth of the thermometer market.Austin ...

Yantachka urges people to replace all the mercury thermometers in their homes – fever and cooking – with digital thermometers and to take their mercury thermometers to their local household ...

Mercury is a somewhat different metal in that it is liquid when most other metals are solid. It has a silvery-gray color, and although many thermometers today are digital, mercury is often used in ...

FREMONT – Following a tip, the Sandusky County Emergency Management Agency confiscated more than 35 pounds of liquid mercury on Jan. 21 from someone who had the poisonous substance for sale on ...

Another advantage of alcohol is that the freezing temperature of mercury is around -38F, so a mercury thermometer is not useful in extremely cold weather.

WEST BABYLON, N.Y.-- Workers at a thermometer factory in West Babylon, New York who were exposed to airborne mercury blame their employer for "prioritizing profits over people." Their boss at the ...

Robert Peyser, 66, of Bellmore on Long Island, and his company, Kessler Thermometer Corp., had earlier pleaded guilty in Suffolk County court to reckless endangerment for exposing employees to ...