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Default How much mercury is in mercury relays?

On 2014-01-18, DoN. Nichols wrote:
As a kid, I used to reclaim Mercury from such relays, and
remember that Mercury is quite dense compared to a similar volume of
steel.


How did you reclaim them? Were they glass or epoxy encapsulated?

Have you ever lifted a bottle filled with it?


Yes. Feels odd.

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