In a message dated 9.9.98 20:21:06 BST, Graham writes:
> Does anyone have any idea about how to dispose of a sphyg-full of Hg?
> I seem to remember seeing a *spillage pack* on sale somewhere that had
> flowers of sulphur in it.
>
Did you get your mercury spill sorted?
I asked my father (physics teacher) who says decant it out into a screw top
bottle, like a specimen bottle, through a plastic funnel
Clean the case with flowers of sulphur, which turns it into a paste
Dispose of the mercury (and what you cleaned the case with) either to a scrap
metal merchant or ask the Health and safety exec for latest advice if scrap
metal chaps don't want it
Or any (older) physics teacher probably has a bottle of dirty mercury already
somewhere in the store cupboard which they might add it to
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