Has mercury been banned in thermometers?

No it depends on where you go

Hmmm............ give me some time i am thinking about it

Red is alcohol, silver is mercury. Call city recycling center.

i think mercury is more of a silvery color..but im pretty sure they arent used anymore, since mercury is very dangerous, especially if the thermometer got broken somehow.

Mercury is not banned in thermometers but as it is now known to be dangerous to inhale the fumes and as it will eat aluminium( therefore banned on planes) safer substitutes are used. The red liquid is probably alcohol coloured so that you can see it easily. Mercury is a silver liquid. When I was a child we used to play with it as it runs around and groups into balls. They used to put it in shops in the middle ages for the rich to run thier hans through as it took the gold from their rings which could later be recovered.

Actually, recent thermometers can have a silvery grey metal inside that is NOT mercury, but an alloy of gallium, indium and tin, which is also liquid at room temperature, and is non toxic.

Mercery ones have a metallic color instead of red. Today mercury thermometers are still widely used in meteorology, however in other usage they are becoming increasingly rare, as mercury is highly and permanently toxic to the nervous system and many countries have banned them outright from medical use. Some manufacturers use a liquid alloy of gallium, indium, and tin, galinstan, as mercury replacement.