On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:44:47 -0500, Robert Connolly wrote: > It's also a danger to the dentists. A pregnant dental student in California > gave birth to a child with mercury poisoning, caused by her 4 year exposure > to mercury vapors in the dental school.
I know this thread is probably stale by now but I'd like to set the record straight on mercury vapors. There is less vapor pressure from mercury at 100 C than there is from ice at near absolute zero. It's in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. It's the reason why mercury was used in the manometers. Can we please stop blaming it on the mercury vapor? There isn't any. Steven -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
