21. This month, state officials filed a bill to ban mercury thermometers and better label mercury products. 22. An Arlington state representative is sponsoring a bill to ban the sale of mercury thermometers in Massachusetts. 23. Mercury thermometers become more inaccurate over time.24. It is a liquid metal at room temperature and it can be used to make mercury thermometers . 25. Major drugstore chains say they will cooperate by replacing depleted stocks of mercury thermometers with electronic models. 26. Today we use a digital thermometer but we still have the mercury thermometers to make a weekly comparison. 27. The ear thermometers are slowly replacing mercury thermometers _ the gag-provoking oral thermometer and the squirm-inducing rectal one. 28. The Indamex Chesapeake was carrying 1, 416 drums of glass cullets, finished and unfinished mercury thermometers and sludge. 29. The reading was not taken by a mercury thermometer , given that mercury freezes at approximately minus 40 degrees. 30. Mercury thermometers may soon be banned.