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Default How much mercury is in mercury relays?

On 1/17/2014 9:17 PM, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:

A quart glass milk bottle of it in the 1960s -- Yes, it's heavy!

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Let's see: it's 13 times the density of water; 2 lbs of water per quart
= 26 lbs of mercury per quart. A 2-handed effort. Bob