The bulb of a mercury-in-glass thermometer Mercury is used primarily for the manufacture of industrial chemicals or for electrical and electronic applications. It is used in some liquid-in-glass thermometers, especially those used to measure high temperatures. A still increasing amount is used as ...
Mercury is used in thermometers, barometers, manometers, sphygmomanometers, float valves, and other scientific apparatus, though concerns about the element's toxicity have led to mercury thermometers and sphygmomanometers being largely phased out in clinical environments in favor of alcohol-filled, digit...
A thermometer contains maybe a few hundred milligrams this is no problem. (From: Herman de Jong (h.m.m.dejong@phys.tue.nl).) I agree with you David. If I remember right the CW laser wasn't peculiarly intense but it had low (single ended) optical feedback and the length of the...
In another study, Hg0 from the air was monitored with lichens in an area that was 20 km from a Hg-thermometer factory in India, and its concentrations ranged between 209 and 1 060 ng g−1 [49]. In South Africa, True et al. [50] determined Hg0 from air accumulated by lichens ...
(SCGE or alkaline comet assay). Fifty years from the first Hg genotoxicity study and with the Minamata Convention in force, the genotoxic potential of Hg and its derivatives is still controversial. Considering these antecedents, we present this first systematic literature overview of genotoxic studies...