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Originally Posted by rca2000
Hazmat my ASS !!!!!!!!!!!
If ONLY...people in this country KNEW what they were TALKING ABOUT !! Instead...they listen to PAID RHETORIC--and THEN ACT on it...hurting EVERYONE !!
I just replaced a MERCURY CONTACTOR for a commercial fryer. I am SURE_-the OLD ONE_-which was "hanging up" and allowing the fryer to run-away and overheat--till the safety limit tripped. I am SURE the old one , which is FULL of mercury.....will be tossed in the TRASH !!That contactor likely contained 20 TIMES the amount of mercury--of ANY CFL bulb !! But ...they go NUTS--if one of them is broken...
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Interestingly enough your common blood pressure checker that your doctors use still use mercury in them (its acually the most accurate way to measure your blood pressure since its actually measured in Milimeters of Mercury (mm/Hg)) and then there are some instances that mercury is still used in thermometers yet (like some medical facilities and labratories use mercury filled glass thermometers yet) so there are still practical uses for mercury yet and in reality mercury can't kill you or poison you unless you ingest large commodoties of it, which most thermometers or blood pressure checkers don't even contain enough mercury in them to poison you, let alone kill you! So really I tend to agree with you there.