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To those who wonder why you can’t board with a thermometer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IrdYueB9pY4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IrdYueB9pY4

• Kuinox 7y ago
  In a recent thermometer there is no mercury anymore. By recent i mean in the last few decades.
  • daliusd 7y ago
    You are a little bit too optimistic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-in-glass_thermometer#List_of_countries_with_regulations_or_recommendations_on_mercury_thermometers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-in-glass_thermometer#L...
    • Kuinox 7y ago
      I just googled for my country (France) and found an article from 1999 (?!) stating that it is forbidden. https://www.lexpress.fr/informations/thermometre-la-fin-du-mercure_632797.html https://www.lexpress.fr/informations/thermometre-la-fin-du-m...
• cortic 7y ago
  ..because if you drill a divot out of the inside of the plain, clean it with hydrochloric acid and break your thermometer on there you might get some pitting.. whoa, dodged a bullet there.
  • cm2187 7y ago
    The video doesn't say that the reaction won't happen without cleaning the surface, just that it will be much slower. And the hole is just to hold the mercury in place.
    • cortic 7y ago
      The video literally says the reaction won't happen without cleaning the surface quote; "Under normal conditions aluminum is surrounded by a protective oxide layer" btw; mods, you have no idea how much it bothers me not being able to change plain to plane in my op.