Yep.. Lots of alarmist stuff filling the airwaves/media these days, in those
nasty microwaves and dangerous poison-laced paper products used for printed
materials.

I fill compelled to add a (personal view, based in reality) reminder/wakeup
that many of the materials considered to be extremely hazardous or
potentially deadly, began as materials that were definitely harmful to work
around for *years/decades* without proper personal protection.

Dust control, fume extraction and other precautions were simply often
neglect of employers to properly protect workers from years of long term
exposure.

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Cheers,
WB
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"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
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You mean like this?
http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/crud/mercury.jpg
The bottle is about 40% full. I used the missing mercury for various
illegal and entertaining purposes. Re-silvering ancient sextant
mirrors was one of my sidelines. I've also supplied some mercury to
several doctors for refilling their mercury sphygmomanometer. The
typical CFL bulb has about 3mg of Hg. When full, the bottle had a net
weight of about 2kg of Hg.

As usual, much of what we know about mercury is alarmist and wrong:
http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/promotions/change_light/downloads/Fact_Sheet_Mercury.pdf
"Therefore, if all 272 million CFLs3 sold in 2009 were sent
to a landfill (versus recycled, as a worst case) - they
would add 0.12 metric tons, or 0.12 percent, to U.S. mercury
emissions caused by humans."


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