Sentences with phrase «mercury in the thermometer»

The mercury in the thermometer is creeping up (well... actually, the numbers on the digital weather station in the kitchen are increasing... modern day stuff, you know) and despite the snow...

The mercury in the thermometer is creeping up (well... actually, the numbers on the digital weather station in the kitchen are increasing... modern day stuff, you know) and despite the snow that still blankets the nearby mountains, the kids are begging to eat outside.

«When heat goes under the ocean, it expands just like mercury in a thermometer,» Steve Nerem, lead scientist for NASA's Sea Level Change Team at the University of Colorado in Boulder, said in the press briefing.

Don't forget to shake down the mercury in the thermometer first.

About a third of the current rate of sea level rise is from thermal expansion of the oceans (the water expands like mercury in a thermometer), because they are absorbing about 90 percent of the increased heat from climate change.

And the Flemish Masters painted what the silver in their clients» purses told them to paint, not what the mercury in their thermometers said.

Not exact matches

Followed by a feeling of calm, yes, of readiness, rising like mercury in the competitive thermometer of his backbone as he mounted the block.

Experts have recommended avoiding mercury thermometers for many years now, so you probably won't even find one in stores, but if you happen to have an old one, you should dispose of it and get a new, safe digital version.

These thermometers are mercury - free, specifically designed for use in newborns and infants, give a reading in 5 to 10 seconds, and include a short, flexible tip, so you don't have to worry about inserting the thermometer too far.

Do not use a traditional mercury thermometer - if you have one of these in your home ask your doctor how to dispose of it safely.

Such thermometers have a special sensor and can reduce the temperature measurement procedure at least twice in comparison with the mercury thermometer.

Of course, some parents still use mercury thermometers which they used to measure the temperature in their childhood.

That was before experts spread the word about the dangers of mercury, even the small amount in a mercury thermometer.

In fact, this whole thermometer has been using no harmful chemicals or materials like glass or mercury.

There are other types of thermometers, including the mercury - in - glass type, ear thermometers, and pacifier type thermometers.

Consider skipping the CFL bulbs in the nursery to reduce potential exposure to mercury (and of course, use a non-mercury thermometer).

Elemental mercury, like the kind found in old thermometers, evaporates readily and circulates through the atmosphere.

A broken thermometer can release enough mercury vapor to poison the air in a room — one reason why some cities and several states discourage the sale of mercury fever thermometers.

With a mercury thermometer, it may take three to five minutes to get a reading, while digital thermometers give you your temp in 30 to 60 seconds.

Until the 1960s, teething powders for babies contained mercury in the form of calomel, and broken mercury thermometers were a common exposure risk in many countries up to the early 2000s.

You are always ready to roam and twirl around in a slip dress irrespective of where the mercury thermometer points to!

Hold it in until the temperature is read (about 3 minutes for a mercury thermometer), and then remove gently.

So, if you have two identical glass greenhouses with thermally isolated mercury thermometers at equilibrium in the sunlight [One with Air at Press =P, and the 2nd w / CO2 at Press =P], and you close the blinds — you will see the thermometer in the CO2 greenhouse retain its temperature longer — not because of any «global warming» type effect, but simply because Air conducts heat to the walls of the greenhouse better than Air does.

Interestingly enough, former California State climatologist James Goodridge did an independent analysis of COOP stations in California that had gone through modernization, switching from Stevenson Screens with mercury LIG thermometers to MMTS electronic thermometers.

Ray Ladbury @ 291 — In the spring of 1959 in my Physics 1c lab I designed, built and tested a negative thermometer; the mercury went down when the bulb was immersed in a beaker of warm wateIn the spring of 1959 in my Physics 1c lab I designed, built and tested a negative thermometer; the mercury went down when the bulb was immersed in a beaker of warm watein my Physics 1c lab I designed, built and tested a negative thermometer; the mercury went down when the bulb was immersed in a beaker of warm watein a beaker of warm water.

So, if you have two identical glass greenhouses with thermally isolated mercury thermometers at equilibrium in the sunlight [One with Air at Press =P, and the 2nd w / CO2 at Press =P], and you close the blinds — you will see the thermometer in the CO2 greenhouse retain its temperature longer — not because of any «global warming» type effect, but simply because Air conducts heat to the walls of the greenhouse better than CO2 does.

The National Weather Service's mercury thermometer had indicated 128 degrees at 4 p.m. Sunday, matching the record for the hottest June day anywhere in the U.S.

As regards thermometers, the diameter of the mercury column with only a + / - 2.5 % deviation in diameter will yield a 10 % error over the number of increments counted.

Considering days when there is parallel data available in the temperature band of interest (the claimed - record hot day in September 2017 measured 37.7 degrees Celsius) the new probe has been found to measure up to 0.4 degrees hotter (e.g. 26 February 2013 the recording for the probe is 37.3, while the mercury thermometer recorded 36.9 on the A8 form).

In fact, Table 1 shows that for the last month of available parallel measurements the electronic probe (Tmax - Probe) often recorded considerably warmer than the mercury thermometer (Tmax - LIG).

As a consequence, the data for this period from the mercury thermometer is not normally distributed, as shown in Figure 1.

(The abbreviation LIG stands for liquid - in - glass i.e. mercury and alcohol thermometers.

Given electronic probes generally respond more quickly to fluctuations in air temperature than mercury thermometers, it follows that this method — instantaneous recordings from an electronic probe — would result in new temperature maxima under the same weather conditions.

There are many more maximum temperatures measurements available for the electronic probe (n = 948) than for the mercury thermometer (n = 115), and the distribution is quite different, with a somewhat more normal distribution for the probe data, as shown in Figure 2.

The BoM, however, claims that temperature measurements from electronic probes are nevertheless «comparable» with measurements from mercury thermometers because the BoM's «purpose - designed» probes «closely mirror» the behaviour of liquid - in - glass thermometers, including the time constant.

A mercury thermometer is going to register the same reading for a highly radiative gas like CO2 as it is for a barely radiative gas like N2 when they have the same average kinetic energy in the molecules.

But the key issue has always been achieving consistency with measurements from the mercury thermometers — so there are no discontinuities in the temperature record with the transition from mercury thermometers to temperature probes.

The guide clearly states that readings from platinum resistance thermometers are not comparable with instant one - second readings from mercury in glass thermometers.

For process control the temperature signal must be steady so the control system does not hunt (ie go up and down) 3 / In industry temperature probes (thermocouples, resistance thermometers, mercury - in - glass etc) need to be shielded by a sheath which normally is high temperature stainless steeIn industry temperature probes (thermocouples, resistance thermometers, mercury - in - glass etc) need to be shielded by a sheath which normally is high temperature stainless steein - glass etc) need to be shielded by a sheath which normally is high temperature stainless steel.

Resistance thermometers used in industry normally had slower response than mercury in glass thermometers.

The mercury thermometer was invented in 1724.

In freshman physics lab I built an up - side - down thermometer (block of parafin with drilled hole for mercury, hollow glass tube so the mercury level fell when the temperature rose).

These are comparable to mercury in glass thermometers.

So, to ensure there is no discontinuity in measurements when the transition occurred from mercury thermometers to electronic probes the maximum and minimum values need to be calculated from one - second readings that have been averaged over at least one minute.

So, to labour Ken's point... of course, electronic probes and mercury thermometers both go in Stevenson screens.

Both the mercury - in - glass thermometers, and the electronic sensors, are housed within a Stevenson Screen.

Of course, mercury thermometers and / or electronic probes (PRTs — platinum resistant thermometers) go in Stevenson screens.

Parts of the data may have some elements of the errors that are Gaussian — the example of measurement error in terms of scale may be Gaussian — after get through the problems of variances in the thermometers themselves, which is also a well - known problem for mercury thermometers vis a vis their manufacturing — but their measured variance from the true temperature is not demonstrably Gaussian, and gets worse the further back you go.

Measurement sites form the core input of the data set for calculating this «global mean temperature» (whatever that actually means), but the measurements from these sites is accurate at best to the nearest 1 degree, in actual practice around the nearest 5 degrees since many are reading off mercury thermometers — and this condition increases in frequency the further back in time you go.

Dry bulb is the familiar temperature recorded by a mercury thermometer, and which often reaches 40 °C in the region each summer.