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.

Mercury — also known as quicksilver — is a naturally occurring silvery, liquid metal released from rocks, soil and volcanoes. It is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature and normal ...

NEWS RELEASE COUNTY OF SIMCOE ************************* The County of Simcoe is proud to announce the launch of the Mercury Roundup Program running at County Household Hazardous Waste drop-off ...

The thermometers could be adapted for a particular temperature range by changing the make-up of the liquid. Rogers and colleagues chose an ammonium-based liquid for general applications, as it is ...

Mercury spilling on the ground due to accidental breakage of thermometers is fairly common in big hospitals, and sometimes in homes too, but this seemingly innocuous happening can expose humans to ...

We may have exactly the thing: a 300-year-old thermometer made by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit himself has recently appeared in a private collection, and will be auctioned off at Christie's on October 8.

26 March 2008 Poisonous mercury in thermometers has been replaced by harmless and better performing ionic liquids in research by scientists from Europe and the US, published in the Royal Society of ...

It was one of Daniel Fahrenheit's most famous inventions. Now, after nearly 300 years as a household fixture, the mercury glass thermometer is bound for the museum. The Canadian government ...

NEWS RELEASE COUNTY OF SIMCOE ************************* The County of Simcoe is proud to announce the launch of the Mercury Roundup Program running at County Household Hazardous Waste drop-off ...