Most commonly, the temperature is measured with a mercury thermometer. The liquid mercury inside the thermometer expands and rises to a certain value when heat is added, and contracts and falls 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 ...

Whether it’s a traditional mercury thermometer, a modern digital one, or a high-tech infrared scanner, they all rely on the same fundamental principle: heat affects matter in predictable ways ...

Testers compare the devices to a mercury thermometer in the labs. Then, they take repeated readings to assess consistency. The results show which in-ear thermometers are the easiest to use and ...

“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 ...