Cleaning Up a Small Mercury Spill

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Uploaded by on Nov 18, 2008

Cleaning Up a Small Mercury Spill

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  • Aww come on, mercury is quite expensive . . . you're not telling me you were planning to disgard the retrieved mercury, are you?

    And by the way after cleaning up, dust the site with a little sulphur powder. That will turn any traces of mercury into HgS. Need you call the emergencies at all?

  • 2nd time this week??? Come on, watch what you're doing :|

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  • @mcrss26 This is not good. Get rid of everything it touched. The more you move mercury, the more it breaks apart, which means more surface area and increased evaporation. It's the small bits of Hg that you have to worry about.

  • great clip .. keep it up thanks

  • its too bad there is no other element like Hg thats non toxic :(

    AND NO GALLIUM DOES NOT COUNT!!!

  • @SuperMiuz That's why she cleaned it up...

    It's only dangerous, if the mercury would be left there.

    If you clean it up immediately, it's not dangerous.

  • a thermometer broke in my room and there are tiny dots of mercury everywhere.. i can't pick it up though.. i can even remove it with a towel. it just breaks apart

  • @sokkmeister you could have just kept it like me, MERCURY ISNT POISONOUS so calm the hell down

  • she shoulda used a vacuum theres still glass there

  • Ok, if you would please help me that would be great. I put a mercury thermometer in about 94.4Celcius water, thats 202F. The mercury broke off inside of the hot water, i lifted the broken glass part out (i dont know if there was some in there that could have escaped). This happened in my kitchen so i wrapped the cup up with everything inside and put it outside. i put a fan here to vent it out. is this correct?

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