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Nickbat Omega Lord Offline Posts: 7167 London NW7 Gender: Drives: 2002 2.6CD Auto	Two ounces (or maybe less than one): US$50k 20. Nov 2009 at 00:12 Read this, and also check the embedded EPA link. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/11/50000_to_clean_up_a_2_oz_mercu.html Don't drop that thermometer! I remember playing with mercury as a kid in the chemistry lab.
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Stone cold BERT Ex Member	Re: Two ounces (or maybe less than one): US$50k Reply #1 - 20. Nov 2009 at 00:19 i broke 1 in a cup of tea when i was a kid and then drank the tea.....I wonder if thats why i`m thick????
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Tony H Omega Baron Offline Posts: 4164 liverpool Gender: Drives: 2.5 ELITE	Re: Two ounces (or maybe less than one): US$50k Reply #2 - 20. Nov 2009 at 00:31 Jeesus! when we were kids my mates big brother used to collect mercury in a large coffee jar it was almost full and must have weiged about ten pounds imagine the clean up costs nowadays if he had have dropped it on the floor
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CaptainZok Omega Lord Offline Pinky for PM Posts: 7301 Bolton Gender: Drives: 2000 MY 2.5 Elite	Re: Two ounces (or maybe less than one): US$50k Reply #3 - 20. Nov 2009 at 00:51 You couldn't make it up could you. How the hell did we survive before these elf & safetee muppets were around to protect us from ourselves.
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Desperate Den Omega King Offline Posts: 11881	Re: Two ounces (or maybe less than one): US$50k Reply #4 - 20. Nov 2009 at 09:29 Yep it was bound to happen, a case of collective arse-covering in all its - 'concern for the safety of the environment and those who inhabit it' - glory. What a lot of balls!
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Debs. Omega Lord Offline A denizen of The Wirral peninsula Posts: 7386 Gender: Drives: 2.5 V6 CDX Estate (1999)	Re: Two ounces (or maybe less than one): US$50k Reply #5 - 20. Nov 2009 at 09:37 I`ve got >1Kg. of Hg in a glass jar out in the workshop..... .....surely, enough to turn everyone on earth into a blithering idiot! (apparently!)
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Kevin Wood Global Moderator Admin Team Offline Posts: 20377 Alton, Hampshire Gender: Drives: 3.2 MV6 (LPG), Westfield	Re: Two ounces (or maybe less than one): US$50k Reply #6 - 20. Nov 2009 at 09:44 Nickbat wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 00:12: I remember playing with mercury as a kid in the chemistry lab. I was playing with a mercury arc rectifier a couple of weeks back. I wonder what the fallout would be from one of those going pop? Must have been about 1/2 a pint of mercury in that. Kevin
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cruisetopoland Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1352 UK Gender: Drives: various	Re: Two ounces (or maybe less than one): US$50k Reply #7 - 20. Nov 2009 at 10:10 I remember breaking open thermometers as a kid and playing with the contents, and I turned out alri........ Explains it all
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Reply #8 - 20. Nov 2009 at 10:57

Mercury as a liquid metal is not really dangerous, as it isn't easily absorbed. Mercury vapour is highly toxic and can be inhaled. It's sometimes released during attempts to clear up spilt liquid mercury. Many mercury compounds are soluble and thus easily absorbed by the body.

Mercury used to be used in the manufacture of felt used for hats. Mercury poisoning often affected workers in the industry, giving rise to symptoms which gave rise to the expression "mad as a hatter".

Many years ago, when I was at school, we used to have an annual camping trip, accompanied by the school staff. Naturally, first aid equipment was taken with. One year, a group which obviously did not include any science teachers, decided to sterilise the thermometers in the first aid kit by boiling them... Sad

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Reply #9 - 20. Nov 2009 at 11:06

Ah yes. Then there were the 'maze' toys where children were encouraged to navigate a blob (or several blobs if shaken) of mercury round a maze sealed in some sort of early acrylic casing. After use you would probably throw the toy into a toy box (or leave it on the tea-table where a hot dish of sheperd's pie would be placed on it)!

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PhilRich Omega Lord Offline Proud to be English, with no apologies to ANYONE! Posts: 6825 NorthEast Coast Gender: Drives: 2002 2.2CDX 4dr Auto. LPG Converted.	Re: Two ounces (or maybe less than one): US$50k Reply #10 - 20. Nov 2009 at 12:36 We shouldn't be too surprised, the lunatics have been running the asylum for quite a while now
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Reply #11 - 20. Nov 2009 at 13:32

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The EPA report states the amount of mercury was 2 teaspoons. An ounce is 6 teaspoons. (Who knew? I thought a teaspoon equaled an ounce. Do not eat anything I have cooked from a recipe.) So the actual amount of spilled mercury was less than one ounce.

PMSL. Got to love the septics and their mad systems of weights and measures. How did they put a man on the moon with science like that? Grin

Shall we tell them that mercury is about 12 or 13 times as dense as water so weighing it with a teaspoon using culinary methods isn't that sensible anyway?

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Omegadoha, Desert Member Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1357 Doha, Qatar Drives: 3.2 V6 2002	Re: Two ounces (or maybe less than one): US$50k Reply #12 - 20. Nov 2009 at 19:05 A friend of mine decided to stick a mercury thermometer in a bunsen burner flame. But he got caught by the teacher and chucked out before anything exploded.
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