On 05/22/2017 07:52 AM, Diane Bruce via cctalk wrote: > I never said I wasn't worried about both fluorescents and CFL's. I > find it horrendous that people freak out over CFL's yet blithely > throw their fluorescents into the garbage without a thought; And yet > older fluorescents were far worse than modern CFL's. We are > furiously agreeing they should both be handled properly.
I don't really want to contribute to perpetuating this thread, but I wonder if there's more mercury in an amalgam dental filling (which many of us have) than in a CFL. And that mercury is in your mouth. Mercury switches were unsurpassed for reliability--I miss them. Mercury-wetted relays were also very reliable. Calomel (Hg2Cl2) was used as a treatment for syphilis, as a purgative and has a fungicide. As a voltage reference, (e.g. in a Weston cell) it was quite valuable. It amazes me that being old enough to have endured lead-based paint, millions of automobiles spewing tetraethyl lead, mercury in my mouth, Mercurochrome being painted on my scuffs and scratches, somehow I managed to survive to my golden years. --Chuck
