[headstamp 2]

“Mercury is fun.”

Used to get it out of the old thermostats. We called it “quick silver”

[Paladin2]

I worked at a place where instrumental mercury (think manometers and other devices) was cleaned by distillation.

The room was well constrained for any outflow and entry very restricted.

[Paladin2]

"Used to get it out of the old thermostats."

Uh, my house thermostat still has its factory supply.

[Truthoverpower]

For more info on mercury webelements is good. Mercury liquid does
Not equal gas in terms of exposure. This is a key lie of the EPA.
Yes all of us over 40 have broken a old thermometer and played with a blob or chemistry lab. This only serves to cement ignorance with the low CHEMISTRY information person. Which is Alot more than 50%

Mercury In these tubes is under vacuum and its a gas Mercury is the only
Element which is liquid at room temp. It will create a high vapor pressure
At 25c. Easily enough to exceed 1mg/m-3. It is invisible colorless and odorless as a gas. And it weighs 200. Air is 32. The dreaded carbon
Dioxide (dry ice) is 44. You see how it goes to the floor as it sublimates or turns direct from solid to liquid #s are Grams per mole

I’m simply here to help people get through the BS and not be harmed anymore by our stupid out of control government zealots

what to use instead? I use clear incandescents. They are now available
Again after the government forced them to put a white coating to cut down the light and make them look like fluorescents But I live in an 1860s house with pull chain lamps and Giant windows. So we don’t need a lot of lumens
Also they are 2$ and completely dimmable no problem

LEDs . Are clearly it for high task work or lots of hrs etc. just make sure
Of the color temp and that its not too blue. They are the here and now for commercial. Period.

My 2c

[Peet]

“Mercury is fun.”

Used to get it out of the old thermostats. We called it “quick silver”

The ironic thing about CFL threads is the memory of the lib-tards foaming at the mouth about mercury thermometers. I still have mine but, boy, did they all make an effort to get every last one out of our houses...

Long-term exposure causes problems. See origin of the phrase "mad as a hatter."

Also see Edison's manufacture of light-bulbs using mercury pumps to evacuate the bulbs and his technicians' loss of teeth (among other problems).

Yeah, we played with the stuff as kids too.