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Title: Good start; bad ending
Review: I bought this thermometer at CVS a few weeks ago. When I first used it, I was impressed. Temperature 99degrees. For the 2nd use, I couldn't get the "mercury" to go lower than 99degrees of the earlier reading. Still, I tried it again. 101degree temp this time; that's about how I was feeling, so I think it worked okay. Still, I couldn't get the silver stuff to go down! I shook it for about a total of 5 minutes, but no movement. I am used to shaking down a regular mercury thermometer (which my husband recently dropped), so I know I used enough force. We put in ice water for a while, but no movement. I put it in hot water, and it still moved upward, it just won't move down. So, for a one time use, it was fine, but not for long-time use. Perhaps it was just this particular item, but it is going back to the store.
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