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Subject: Re: Calibrated Thermometers

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all compounds and elemental mercury ARE toxic.
I spent 10k dollars on mercury vapour detector/meter.(company money),
cos we have quite a lot of it in use.
you go nuts (sort of) by inhaling mercury vapours.
it is so called neurotoxin. salts are toxic too.
altghough it does not kill instantly.




On 11 May 2006 15:14:51 -0700, dan.c.quinn@att.net wrote:

#RE:tlianza wrote:
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#> Hi to all. If you break the mercury thermometer in your darkroom,
#> you might as well move out. It has a terrible potential to fog
the
#> film and it is very bad for your long term health.
#>
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# Mercury, Quick Silver, fun to play with. Nearly a noble metal
#which can be found in nature in the native state. Perhaps you've
#got elemental mercury mixed up with it's very toxic compounds.
#Some of those are being emitted by the tons from the world's
#coal fired generating plants. Dan

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