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What if you don't want to deal with the toxic mercury gases?
by _red 13y ago
What if you don't want to deal with the toxic mercury gases?
- outworlder 13y agoWhich are not released unless you break them. And even then, just open the windows for a couple of minutes.
- MiguelHudnandez 13y agoIt's a little more complicated than opening a window if you want to be as safe as possible. But you don't want to fuck around with mercury. http://www2.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-cfl http://www2.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-cfl
- nitrogen 13y agoPeople used to play with mercury as a toy, even drink it just to watch it pass through their digestive system. It's a very good thing people don't do that stuff anymore, but there are probably far worse things than mercury hiding in household items and chemicals.
- ars 13y ago> What if you don't want to deal with the toxic mercury gases? Then buy CFLs? They help keep toxic mercury out of the air from burning coal. Do you seriously believe CFLs emit any mercury, or are you trolling?
- od2m 13y agoWhen broken, absolutely. http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
- ars 13y agoI've broken one bulb in a decade. But by being an early adopter and using them for more than a decade I've prevented hundreds of times as much mercury from entering the atmosphere.
- pilom 13y agoOne CFL bulb has less mercury in it than a can of tuna: http://www.lamprecycle.org/public/images/docs/LD+A%20August%202009.pdf http://www.lamprecycle.org/public/images/docs/LD+A%20August%...
- mmagin 13y agoIncorrect. That article is comparing the estimated exposure from a broken CFL with the exposure from eating Albacore[1] tuna. The actual mercury content in the CFL is obviously much greater. [1] And not all canned tuna is Albacore. The stuff sold as "light" tuna is typically lower mercury content (don't have a source handy at the moment.)