[sdiy] DONT TOUCH

[harry]

Lets not get too afeared....

Mercury is not easily assimilated into the human body through the skin
at all... and it is not very water soluable. If you clean it up well
forget the
superfund. If your dog or child likes to lick the floor.. that's
different.

Oxides of mercury are bad. Bur they do not form at normal human
temperatures
... think house fire...

Breathing the mercury oxides would be bad news. This is what killed a
lot of photographic pioneers.

We all (those maybe 45+ years old) played with liquid mercury as
kids....

didn't we ???

H^) harry

studio271 wrote:

> This got me to thinking; for those of you who have never seen or
> heard of a mercury spill (you are lucky, because I
>  rarely think for others)...
>
> When I first thought about what happens when mercury hits the
> ground, I thought in terms of it being the same as a water spill;
> everything stays together, very little splatter. However, when
> mercury spills, it instantly breaks into thousands of little round
> pellets about .2mm in diameter. Whats worse is that they then
> proceed to cover the entire area of the surface you happened to
> drop the stuff on. Very big problem. That's definitely why those
> switches are encased in VERY thick glass (plastic won't offer good
> leak protection for the joints to the electrodes, I think).
>
> Just thought I'd offer that little tidbit o' info.
>
> -271
>
> BTW - touching mercury itself will permenantly color that part of
> your skin brown. Not a fun "battle scar" to have...
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: epeasant at telusplanet.net
> Reply-to: epeasant at telusplanet.net
> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:43:46 GMT
>
> >>On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 LBC40X at aol.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> in regards to my mercury tilt switch idea...instead of
> mounting them to be
> >
> >>*snip*
> >>
> >>Someone's already mentioned an EPA superfund site. Just how easy
> is it to
> >>break these things?
> >>
> >
> >The ones that I have are enclosed in glass like a small light
> bulb, but the
> >glass seems pretty thick. Never broken one though, but correctly
> mounted in
> >a robust case should be sufficient to protect them. They are
> commonly used in
> >old style furnace thermostats, BTW.
> >
> >Take care, Doug
> >
> >______________________
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> >
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> >
>
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