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secondcoming04/26/20251 replyview on HN

Are mercury thermometers no longer a thing? My parents had a few while I was growing up in the 80’s


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hinkley04/26/2025

I had a recollection that they were banned but it looks like the EPA convinced NIST to stop providing calibration services for mercury thermometers back in 2011.