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mercury in cfl's
frank.logullo wrote:
From: "lee houston"
Subject: compact flourescents, mercury hazard?
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 5:10 PM
Seems a bit extreme? Mercury hazard and/or yellow jounalism?
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55213
lee
I'm not sure how much mercury is in these bulbs but here is what and
environmental group says:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005...about_merc.php
Mercury toxicity depends on molecule that contains it. If it were that
toxic, all us older people would be dead from all the mercurochrome we used
to use
Frank
http://www.nema.org/lamprecycle/epafactsheet-cfl.pdf
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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
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