Date: May 11, 2010 5:26:29 AM EDT
Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] 3 re: Hg
response
Please,
don=92t underestimate the danger of mercury vapour!
Mercury vapour is dangerous, and it is difficult to
clean up indoor spills completely. Even the 5 mg Hg from a crushed light
bulb indoors can create dangerous air concentrations, as many
publications have shown. The saturated air concentration at room
temperature is about 15 mg Hg/m3. That concentration is 500 times higher
than the TLV, and such exposures have resulted in serious
intoxications.
Yours
truly,
Allan Astrup Jensen
Technical
Vice President
Secretariat for Metrology, Chemical analysis and
Management Systems
FORCE
Technology, Br=F8ndby
Park All=E9 345
2605 Br=F8ndby
Denmark
Phone:
+45 43 26 70 00
Direct: +45 43 26 70 81
Mobile: +45 40 94 10 22
Fax: +45 43 26 70 11
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