Mercury gives off vapors that can harm you and your family. Special lighting shows these invisible, odorless vapors. The narrator discusses how to handle a mercury spill.
But how long does it keep giving off vapors? Is that Petri Dish still smoking three days later? or does it die down after 24 hours? Is this going to be giving off toxic fumes out of the carpet until the end of time or does it all evaporate out in a week? I have so many questions that this video didn't answer.
Put it this way, Amalgam tooth fillings contain 50% Mercury that have been removed many decades later still off gas Mercury vapor - so probably centuries? And yes your silver Amalgam filling vapors are about twice the level to evacuate a city yet alone heating them up with a hot cup of coffee or hot food and when a high speed dentist drill makes contact with them - try 220 x the city evacuation limit.
@@agems56 It's not allowed to _be_ answered. If they said conclusively that mercury in any form was harmful, we'd be able to make the Rockefellers homeless, for they'd been injecting it directly into us for decades.
As long as there is mercury in it ,it will evaporate. It has a low vapor pressure at room temperature so it does take a while and that's why mercury contamination can be a problem. It's not the fact that you are breathing mercury vapors, which are not much in a ventilated area, is the fact that the mercury contamination will be there for a long time and it is a cumulative poison. Evaporation can be sped up by increasing temperature. If you put the petri dish at 360°C all the mercury will evaporate off the dish in a few minutes. But this will result in huge toxic vapor generation.
Our science class had a whole beaker of mercury dropped on the floor while constructing a Mercury barometer! We just carried on like nothing ever happened! As far as fever thermometers go, I broke one over my blanket as a child while having my fever measured during a chicken pox out break in the seventies!
Just more fear based propaganda to control the masses. My parents spoke about playing with mercury as a child. If a thermometer broke, their parents would actually give them the beads of mercury to play with for a bit!
Well , I f up , I bought one of those phone dissenfectant UVC light , I did not notice , I put my phone in there for a time limit of 3 min . I opened it and a weird smell 👃 came out , and I notice a lamp was broken , is phone and air polluted , what do i do ? I rinsed my phone outside with water to see something in the internet that might help , but 😩 idk .
In 1986 I bought my sons a toy which consisted of a clear plastic shallow dish with a cover where you had to tilt and shake blobs of mercory into separate holes on a cardboard bottom ontil al of them were filled evenly! this was to improve hand and eye coordination! For four years old and up! Children allowed to play with this and break like we did!
Do you have a video about CFL bulbs? We had one bulb explode in our living room, probably due to voltage overload. I already cleaned it up following instructions I've seen on the internet but I'm still worried about the vapors.
What if "somebody" had a large amount of *mercury,* let's say a gallon worth and they placed the quick silver into a *large glass* jar, than left it *boiling* on the kitchen stove. What would happen once all the liquid metal has boiled out? Would the house have to be *condemned?*
Possibly. Do you happen to be this “somebody”? If so boiling mercury is one of the dumbest things you can do. It will vaporize very fast and contaminate everything. When I was about 13 I put a drop of it into a spoon and put the spoon over a flame on the stove not realizing it would vaporize. The bead just disappeared as if it disintegrated into another dimension. Unfortunately that’s not what happens. It went into the air and I breathed a lot of it in. I’ll never do that again
...if someone actually did something that dumb I seriously doubt they would survive long enough for all the liquid metal to boil out in the first place.
You could decontaminate the whole house somehow, but it is not worth it at this point. Just abandon the whole building (and possibly the whole neighborhood) for the next three centuries. A gallon (3.78 liters) is over 51 kg of mercury, this means that as all the mercury gets vaporized, the levels of mercury won't be safe (PEL of 0.1 mg/m³) in a radius of (51 kg/(2/3 π *0.1 mg/m³))^(1/3)=630 meters. The birds flying close to your house would die. The levels would be immediately dangerous (IDLH of 10 mg/m³) in a radius of 135 meters. You would have created a huge hazmat, and you would be arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment, if it weren't for the fact that you'd be already dead in less than a hour after starting heating the mercury. Just like anyone living close to you. If you live in a highly populated area tens of people would die, and hundreds if not thousands would be severly ill and hospitalized. Many of them with permanent damage. This is not an exaggeration, liquid mercury metal by itself is not that toxic, you can touch it, play with it, even put it into your mouth, but the vapors certainly are. And 50 kg of mercury is a lot of stuff to vaporize.
@@shazzy4741 UV carries more energy and infrared radiation less energy than visible light. Mercury absorbs energy from UV, then the mercury shadow form.
sxx- x did you really? Video says every time you use the vacuum you will spread it around your home & damage the vacuum. You have to get rid of the vacuum. 🌊
