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Re:Mercury Spill by cbr on Friday October 09, 2015 @08:45AM (#10359621)
Breathing the fumes for an extended period of time? That's exactly what we would have had without the remediation.
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Re:Mercury Spill by atomicUpdate on Friday October 09, 2015 @04:54PM (#10363213)
Not necessarily, since there was nothing to vaporize it. He even shows an old picture he'd taken of it where the drops had sat undisturbed for so long that they had a chance to oxidize.
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Re:Mercury Spill by cbr on Saturday October 10, 2015 @02:39PM (#10366470)
The techs measured vapor at 37,000 ng/m3 after the first day of cleanup, at which point there was no longer any easily visible mercury. Like water, mercury doesn't need something to vaporize it; you just end up with some vapor as long as there's liquid present.

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