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Sadly, mercury thermometers are uncool.
Quoting NIST, "Today, there is no scientific or metrological reason to employ mercury thermometers for any application..." As of 2011 they would not calibrate mercury thermometers.
I know that we still have the alcohol-bulb thermometers to stick in our various orifices, and I think there are "shiny runny silver metal-filled" versions with gallinstan or some other gallium alloy.
Hg just gets no love anymore. No thermometers. No pressure gauges. No vaccines (ducks head...)
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'78SC, lots of other boring cars...
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