On Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:08:03 EDT
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> Did you get your mercury spill sorted?
Well, thank you, Grace. At long last someone's given me a *sensible*
answer. (Sorry Phil) ;-)
> 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
Oh no it doesn't!! Either that or my flowers of sulphur (horticultural..of
course, flowers get it??..oh well, never mind) are not the *cleaning
mercury* sort.
> 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
Good idea..will investigate this line of enquiry.
Thanks for the help
Cheerio,
Graham
'Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at
which one can die.'
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