Date: Wed Nov 15 07:55:41 2006

Author: Gerald Zani

Subject: Re: Mercury Thermometer

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David,

All my mercury thermometers are gone courtesy of the health and safety police.
I have all digital thermometers. -- JZ

At 06:10 PM 11/14/2006, you wrote:
>Hi all,
> I have a faculty member with a u shaped mercury thermometer that’s showing its age. The mercury has separated into 3 or 4 small sections near the top of the thermometer. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix it? We’ve tried heating it to ~110 C but that didn’t help. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Respectfully,
>
>David
>
>David Haley
>Senior Lab Technician
>Pomona College Department of Physics & Astronomy
>610 N. College Ave.
>Claremont CA 91711
>(909) 621-8721
>
>
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Gerald Zani e-mail: Gerald_Zani@brown.edu

Manager of Demonstrations phone: (401) 863-3964

Department of Physics FAX: (401) 863-2024

Brown University Providence, RI 02912-1843 USA



http://www.physics.brown.edu/physics/demopages/demo/

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Do a little more of that work which you have confessed to be good,

Which you feel that society and your most Just Judge rightly demand of you.

Cultivate the tree which you have found to bear fruit in your soil.

If you have any experiments you would like to try, try them.

Now's your chance.



Henry David Thoreau, Journal entry, 1850.




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David,
All my mercury thermometers are gone courtesy of the health and safety
police.
I have all digital thermometers. -- JZ
At 06:10 PM 11/14/2006, you wrote:
Hi
all,
I have
a faculty member with a u shaped mercury thermometer that’s showing its
age. The mercury has separated into 3 or 4 small sections near the
top of the thermometer. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix
it? We’ve tried heating it to ~110 C but that didn’t help.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Respectfully,

David

David Haley
Senior Lab Technician
Pomona College Department of Physics & Astronomy
610 N. College Ave.
Claremont CA 91711
(909) 621-8721


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Gerald
Zani e-mail:
Gerald_Zani@brown.edu
Manager of
Demonstrations phone:
(401) 863-3964
Department of
Physics FAX:
(401) 863-2024
Brown
University Providence,
RI 02912-1843 USA

http://www.physics.brown.edu/physics/demopages/demo/
http://www.physics.brown.edu/physics/userpages/staff/Gerald_Zani/index.html

Do a little more of that work which you have confessed to be
good,
Which you feel that society and your most Just Judge rightly demand
of you.
Cultivate the tree which you have found to bear fruit in your
soil.
If you have any experiments you would like to try, try them.

Now's your chance.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal entry, 1850.



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