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2. The actual amount of mercury in one of those tubes is very small

Sun Sep 29, 2019, 08:15 PM

Sep 2019

and is unlikely to cause adverse effects from a single exposure. The cleanup you did is recommended because mercury is a hazardous substance, but one source I found says the amount of spilled mercury is the equivalent of a helping of fish. https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/environment/info-08-2011/broken-fluorescent-bulb-ask-the-experts.html No need to panic.

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So today a burned-out 4-foot flourescent tube bulb exploded on my kitchen floor. [View all] Grasswire2 Sep 2019 OP

Here are guidelines for how to clean up a broken flourescent bulb: Liberty Belle Sep 2019 #1

Wow. Never even thought about it. blm Sep 2019 #3

this is a four foot long older flourescent tube. Grasswire2 Sep 2019 #4

The actual amount of mercury in one of those tubes is very small The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #2

well, here I sit eating a cod dinner. :-) nt Grasswire2 Sep 2019 #5

When we were kids we'd play with the little beads of mercury The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #8

That's true. Grasswire2 Sep 2019 #9

You had the fish? Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2019 #10

Oh dear - I used to delight in throwing pnwest Sep 2019 #6