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Mercury Use and Recovering Gold from Amalgam information and questions
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<blockquote data-quote="Guest" data-source="post: 26189"><p>Ozjono no one was saying anything about wearing a hazmat suit just using common sense. To put it into perspective you could eat some mercury or roll it around in your hands with little or possibly no effect. Breathing a small amount of vapour/fumes can affect the central nervous system, kidneys, liver, lungs etc. & is far more hazardous. </p><p>If commonsense to you is wearing a hazmat suit & not driving past a coal fired power station??? then so be it but when a CFL breaks in my house I will use the recommended commonsense clean up process of ventilating the room, sweep up not vacuuming, wearing rubber gloves, wiping the area down with a damp cloth & disposing of everything in a sealed plastic bag regardless of the amount in them & the low probability of exposure. There must be something to it, they even recommend ventilating the room for 30mins to dissipate any vapours even though it is in elemental metallic form & relatively low risk at that amount. (probably all overkill I know)</p><p>I still won't be burning any off out the back yard either - not in suburbia anyways. Use a retort - I'd probably do that though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guest, post: 26189"] Ozjono no one was saying anything about wearing a hazmat suit just using common sense. To put it into perspective you could eat some mercury or roll it around in your hands with little or possibly no effect. Breathing a small amount of vapour/fumes can affect the central nervous system, kidneys, liver, lungs etc. & is far more hazardous. If commonsense to you is wearing a hazmat suit & not driving past a coal fired power station??? then so be it but when a CFL breaks in my house I will use the recommended commonsense clean up process of ventilating the room, sweep up not vacuuming, wearing rubber gloves, wiping the area down with a damp cloth & disposing of everything in a sealed plastic bag regardless of the amount in them & the low probability of exposure. There must be something to it, they even recommend ventilating the room for 30mins to dissipate any vapours even though it is in elemental metallic form & relatively low risk at that amount. (probably all overkill I know) I still won't be burning any off out the back yard either - not in suburbia anyways. Use a retort - I'd probably do that though. [/QUOTE]
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