"Martin Rowley" wrote snip
With a classic mercury-in-glass thermometer,

.... just for the record, I should of course have written
'liquid-in-glass' thermometer, especially as the thermometers referred
to (grass minimum) use alcohol, not mercury!

Martin.


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