They still put mercury in glass envelopes, there are several hundred here where I work. In the light fittings, 2 types high pressure and low pressure mercury. and HID and metal halide. Mercury is also present in reasonable quantity in fluorescent tubes, of which there are millions all around us.
On 9 Feb, 07:42, Quixotic Nixotic <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9 Feb 2012, at 05:04, Terry Kennedy wrote: > > > When I was a kid in elementary school, each year the science > > teacher would pull out the jar of mercury and pour it into a > > shallow pan, and we'd all run our fingers through it and marvel at > > how something so heavy could be a liquid. > > In the UK, in the days of pounds shillings and pence, LSD, a ha'penny > was very much the same size as a shilling. So lots of schoolboys > would break open a thermometer and coat the ha'penny with the mercury > to make it silver and pass it off as a shilling - 24 times the value. > Smearing the mercury on the coin with a finger, of course. I think > that's what they call liquid assets. > > John S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
