My thermostat uses the expansion/contraction of a drop mercury to conduct electricity and trigger when to turn off and on.CyberNinja23 t1_iyaub2f wrote
BiMetallic strip. The thermal expansion properties of the different metals at different room temperatures allows the metal holding the mercury to flex back a forth, ideally allowing the mercury in the tube to break the circuit or comeback to complete the circuit.
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