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How do you deal with the liquid mercury scattered in laboratory?
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∙ 13y ago
Set up a vacuum flask with flexible intake tubing long enough to reach the mercury spill. Use glass tubing on the inside of the flask to reach nearly to the bottom on the intake side. On the other side (the side connected to the vacuum source) make sure the glass tubing reaches just inside the flask, near the top, so that the mercury entering the flask will not simply be sucked into the vacuum source lines. Use a two-holed rubber stopper to accomplish all this.
This will give you a mercury vacuum cleaner, so to speak. Use a regulator and be careful to use just enogh vacuum to lift the mercury into the flask.
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∙ 13y ago
Close off the area to prevent further contamination, wear protective gear like gloves and a mask, use a special Mercury cleanup kit if available, carefully collect spilled mercury droplets with a pipette or suction device, and dispose of the mercury properly following hazardous waste guidelines.
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Mercury must be collected with a piece of copper dipped before in mercury to form an amalgam on the surface.
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