Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1910 — As to Thermometers. [ARTICLE]

As to Thermometers.

Neither the mercury or the alcohol thermopieter is good for measuring extreme temperatures because of the|r freezing and -boiling points. Mercury freeses at 39 degrees centigrade, below zero. Alcohol freeses at 130 degrees centigrade, below zero. They cannot be used in measuring high temperatures because of their low boiling points.