EAGLE COUNTY – Mercury is dangerous stuff if allowed to roam free. This month in Eagle County is dedicated to rounding up as much of the stuff as possible before it does any damage.Local fire stations ...

Broken thermometers are the cause of numerous calls to the Poison Center. Thermometers with a silver line contain elemental mercury. Thermometers with a red or blue liquid do NOT contain mercury.

The mercury thermometer, long a fixture in household medicine cabinets and industrial settings, is going the way of the horse and buggy. The reason: Mercury released into the environment from a broken ...

The Reading Health Division would like to give a special thanks to the Lawrence Teen Coalition for donating mercury free thermometers so that the division can continue to provide this service to the ...

Mercury can be found in a variety of non-laboratory items such as fluorescent light bulbs, thermometers, older pressure gauges, plumbing traps, manometers, barometer, thermostats, capacitors, and ...

One of the original activities of the National Institute of Standards & Technology is now history. As of March 1, NIST no longer provides calibration services for mercury thermometers. The move marks ...

About 7 million mercury thermometers in hospitals and clinics across China may be phased out by the end of this year, as an international treaty to protect human health and the environment from ...

Mercury, also called quicksilver, is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. A heavy, silvery, transition metal, mercury is one of five elements that are ...

A BAN on mercury in thermometers was urged by the European Commission yesterday. A BAN on mercury in thermometers was urged by the European Commission yesterday. The chemical element should go because ...

China will ban mercury thermometers from Jan 1. HUANG TAIMING/FOR CHINA DAILY China will ban the production of mercury-containing thermometers and blood pressure monitors from Jan 1, aiming to curb ...