“We used to play with it as kids. Use it in high school labs. Really need that adjective, bulbous. Helps. As to “as much as,” a lovely kind of sort of. As to 500 cubic centimeters, sounds like a lot! Right? That’s a bit more than a pint. Today, online, about $100 worth, delivered to your home or classroom....”
Had a friend who grew up around the great lakes. He was telling me that there were small streams of it running out of the hills into the lakes.
I don’t know if it is true or not because of the constant environmental “one size fits all” narrative and brainwashing, but someone once told me it is only mercury in a certain type of state that is poisonous? The mercury we played with was not that harmful.
--- "Mercury is found at varying levels (0 - 2 µg/L) throughout North Carolina. Only 0.03% of wells sampled for mercury in North Carolina from 2018- 2019 exceeded the state standard (1 µg/L). "
Source: https://epi.dph.ncdhhs.gov/oee/docs/Mercury_WellWaterFactSt.pdf
Of course, there are pollutants in our environment, but generally we in the US are in a better situation today than in decades past. Excepting one great pollutant. Government.
Thinking of "lead in paint chips" and small children versus the situation of small children in Democrat-led inner cities today, I'd pick paint chips over being shot at.
“We used to play with it as kids. Use it in high school labs
My guess is that the vapor may do you harm. I suspect the vapor pressure at room temperatures is pretty low so there won’t be much in the air from the from the small bulbs you chased around on your desk. Would probably need to breath a bunch of the dust that flies out when you break a florescent light bulb. Any florescent light bulb engineers out with some real data?