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When elemental mercury is spilled or a device containing mercury breaks, the exposed elemental mercury can evaporate and become an invisible, odorless toxic vapor. This is especially true in warm or poorly-ventilated rooms or spaces. Sources of potential exposure to elemental mercury are described below.
The mercury inside a CFL would be a VAPOR, more than likely. You all are going to make me look this up, aren't you?
It will be a vapor when the light is on, but much of it liquefies when the light is off. You can't see it in CFLs but you can in some older tube bulbs.
Because I was and am smarter than every doctor I went to. Moderator cut: No insults .
Uh huh. And just how did you get exposed to enough mercury to poison you, Moderator cut: No insults ? Did some nerd-herder pummel you, hold you down, and force you to swallow it?
There is something more interesting about CFLs, they aren't as power efficient as they make out to be.. They ALL use around twice the voltage of whatever their wattage is, put very simply. Once the power companies figure that out.. there will be problems. (trying to find link to where that was discussed)
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