craig wrote:
And if you feel that the LCD monitor is greener think again. This time
the heavy element is mercury is contained in the LCD.
The mercury he is talking about is in the lamp that provides the backlight.
It's a low-pressure mercury vapor lamp. The site referenced below indicates
that such lamps contain a few milligrams of Hg.
From that site: "... average four-foot fluorescent lamp contains about 11.6
milligrams (mg) of mercury."
The LCD backlight in a monitor is much smaller so might, at a guess based on length,
contain say 2 mg.
http://lightingdesignlab.com/articles/mercury_in_fl/mercurycfl.htm
Mike
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