30 May
2010
30 May
'10
2:20 p.m.
On 30 May 2010 at 18:42, Tony Duell wrote:
> Actually, for reasons of cost, moist thermometers
don't use
mercury
anyway. The ones that did, did so for, I suspect,
technical reasons. I
don';t beleive there was enoguh mercury used in thermomneters to be a
hazard, but when it was used, it was used because it was the best
material to use, And that's what bothers me about the ban.
The only fever thermometers in my medicine cabinet are mercury-
filled. They're reasonably accurate.
--Chuck