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Mercury Thermometer

ronbyrne2005 · 2007-09-06 01:29:30

Dropped one of these in dining room on a wooden floor. I think it had mercury in as i found mercury like substance on floor AFTER my mother had begun sweeping up the broken thermometer.:rolleyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clinical_thermometer_38.7.JPG I gathered up the small amount of mercury/mercury like…

06-09-2007 1:29am

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Dropped one of these in dining room on a wooden floor. I think it had mercury in as i found mercury like substance on floor AFTER my mother had begun sweeping up the broken thermometer.:rolleyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clinical_thermometer_38.7.JPG

I gathered up the small amount of mercury/mercury like substance i could find on floor and opened french doors to ventilate room.
Is it likely to have caused me and mother any damage if we inhaled vapours from it? I only bought the thermometer recently.

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No you need to be in contact with a lot more than that to suffer ill effects. I presume you didn't swallow or inhale any of the blobs?

People used to smash those thing all the time in science class in school :-)

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