What is inside a safety thermometer?

Subject: What is inside a safety thermometer?

Date: Wed Nov 30 12:22:06 2005
Posted by Lisa
Grade level: 4-6 School: Margaretville Central School
City: Margaretville State/Province: NY Country: USA
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 1133378526.Ch

Message:


To Whom It May Concern:

Please be so kind as to answer a question for my students?  What is inside a 
safety thermometer?  We know that it is not mercury, but what is the "red 
spirit" in the thermometer?

Thank you so much for your kind attention to my request.

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