[Noisebridge-discuss] mercury on the table?

d p chang pchang at macrovision.com
Thu Jun 25 18:00:43 UTC 2009


John Magolske <listmail at b79.net> writes:

> * Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com> [090624 19:57]:
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:
>> > A tiny bead of mercury still calls for full evac and hazardous
>> > materials handling. Mercury vapor is serious shit.
>> >
>> This is indeed true, but what was found was significantly more than
>> a tiny bead, 
>
> Was anything done with this mercury? It was found...but then what?

i think we scared it away w/ all the scary talk :-)

anyway, until this discussion (and glancing at the hazmat pdf), i never
had any idea of the toxicity levels. i have a dim memory of high school
chem teachers having jars of the stuff laying around and watching a
'bead' roll around the top of the lab bench proded by a pen/pencil.

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