Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!
The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven.
The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
No heating system can deliver perfectly uniform temperatures throughout a house, and drafts can magnify the perceived difference in temperatures. Try walking around with a thermometer.
I have invented the Thermometer style.
