Is it Hot or Cold?

Lets talk laboratory thermometers, you need one right? Do you want a total immersion or partial immersion thermometer? Will you need Celsius or Fahrenheit Scale? You can get in White or Yellow Back, Mercury-Filled or Spirit filled. The choices are endless. Do you need an NIST Traceable Certificate? HB Instruments is one of the top manufacturers of laboratory thermometers Please remember when making a selection that Mercury is a regulated product, you may want to go with a spirit filled thermometer, less trouble and will provide you with the same results. Thermo Scientifc and ERTCO are also big manufactures of spirit filled thermometers. Red spirit filled is toluene kerosene or isoamyl benzoate and blue spirit filled is kerosene or isoamyl benzoate, and green spirit filled is kerosene.