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railfancwb Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 57 minutes ago, pipedreams said: Sometimes they never heal. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Mercury based fever thermometers - when did they disappear from the market? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Huaco Kid Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 You can get mercury thermometers on the webz, but not in the US. I bought a a bunch a while back, while I still can. Also look into "scientific" or industrial applications, but they can be very expensive. I got some of them too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Batesmotel Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Oh come on. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostinTexas Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 21 minutes ago, Batesmotel said: Oh come on. That sucks. Top down, well, that little G sting of a Bimini. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 1 minute ago, LostinTexas said: That sucks. Top down, well, that little G sting of a Bimini. Not driving it to work. At least the inside is stripped. No carpet, rear seat or anything else that water can damage. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 On 4/17/2024 at 6:42 AM, tous said: Aren't Keith Richards jokes getting kind of old? Â https://tenor.com/view/lol-laugh-haha-joke-lmao-gif-4128268627487012375 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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railfancwb Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 58 minutes ago, ChuteTheMall said: How many millions died in World War I? Did the Versailles treaty which ended this war lead to World War II? Has World War I finally ceased echoing or is the world still trying to get past it? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 The Treaty of Frankfurt caused the harshness of the Treaty of Versailles. It can be argued that the Germans (Prussians) brought it on themselves. This cycle goes back a long way in Europe. War, treaty, reparations, retaliation, repeat. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 A world at war is normal, what we've seen in the last 70+ years of relative peace is an anomaly. It was dearly bought, and too easily thrown away. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tous Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 17 hours ago, Huaco Kid said: You can get mercury thermometers on the webz, but not in the US. I bought a a bunch a while back, while I still can. Also look into "scientific" or industrial applications, but they can be very expensive. I got some of them too. STP (standard temperature and pressure) is still, to my knowledge, based on thermometers and barometers that use mercury as the sampling substance. If they replace such with a similar substance, that makes hundreds of years of sampling and recording invalid. Gallium, another metal that is liquid at room temperature (measured with a mercury thermometer) comes to mind as a possible substitute, but gallium's melting point is around 85F (29C) degrees, thus it is solid at temperatures below that. It has a high boiling point, but I doubt that many people need a thermometer that measures temperatures around 2400F (4500C) degrees. A suitable alloy may make the alloyed gallium useful -- or not. Gallium is not very toxic as a gas, liquid or a solid. I have held gallium in my hands and watched it melt, so it is not a good material for M & Ms.  How about, Don't eat the mercury from the thermometer! Don't heat it until it boils and breathe in the resulting gas! Rather than ban mercury, let's ban stupid. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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