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The Velveteen Ocelot

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8. When we were kids we'd play with the little beads of mercury

Reply to Grasswire2 (Reply #5)

Sun Sep 29, 2019, 10:11 PM

Sep 2019

that came from thermometers, rolling them around in our hands. I don't know of anybody who got mercury poisoning, me included. Of course it's hazardous and shouldn't be handled (which we didn't realize then), but the light bulb/tube cleanup instructions are offered out of an abundance of caution.

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So today a burned-out 4-foot flourescent tube bulb exploded on my kitchen floor. [View all] Grasswire2 Sep 2019 OP

Here are guidelines for how to clean up a broken flourescent bulb: Liberty Belle Sep 2019 #1

Wow. Never even thought about it. blm Sep 2019 #3

this is a four foot long older flourescent tube. Grasswire2 Sep 2019 #4

The actual amount of mercury in one of those tubes is very small The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #2

well, here I sit eating a cod dinner. :-) nt Grasswire2 Sep 2019 #5

When we were kids we'd play with the little beads of mercury The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #8

That's true. Grasswire2 Sep 2019 #9

You had the fish? Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2019 #10

Oh dear - I used to delight in throwing pnwest Sep 2019 #6

thanks for the tip. i had one go out and burnt out my lamp fixture which set off the master AllaN01Bear Sep 2019 #7