In message
<63e38a5b081437478c77651f3d56c64f25148...@orsmsx102.amr.corp.intel.com>,
dated Fri, 24 Aug 2012, "Pettit, Ghery" <[email protected]> writes:
Actually, breaking a fluorescent tube on a nuclear submarine was a
major issue as they recycle their air. They didn't want mercury in
their air at all. It was a major deal at the shipyard if one got
broken.
I guess there is a lot of aluminium about. Mercury is REALLY bad news
for aluminium, because it breaks down the oxide film that prevents
aluminium behaving in air as the highly-reactive metal it actually is.
Not quite as reactive as sodium, but not far off. Oxidation proceeds
very rapidly and what was aluminium becomes a fine powder of alumina -
aluminium oxide, china clay.
So don't even think about taking mercury on a plane!
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