Posted by Larry Hoover on October 11, 2003, at 14:49:42
In reply to Mercury in everything... electricity makes it vent, posted by Wolf Dreamer on October 11, 2003, at 7:27:23
> Computer monitors, televisions, fluorescent lights... all have mercury in them.
....and, unless the glass breaks, the mercury stays inside. All of it.
> I read about how the American Dental Association admited mercury leaks slowly from your fillings, and how they also admited that being near high voltage lines caused it to leak at a higher rate. People that reported high voltage lines causing them to get sick, really should've just been blaming their mercury fillings.
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> I'm wondering now if mercury is leaking through various electronics we own.Mercury from dental amalgam is a real risk. Mercury from computers, TVs and fluorescent lights is not, unless they break.
> I remember hearing how gasses are vented continously from most computer monitors, and how that affects some people with allergies... I just did a google search and found this:
> http://allergies.about.com/library/weekly/aa092500a.htm
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> I'm wondering what else is leaking out of it.Lots of different things. The process is known as out-gassing. I'm not sure there's much you can do about it, though, unless you want to live in a cave in Alaska, or something.
There are some things you can control, like what's in the water you drink (as in the other thread). But, I don't know a way to control what's in the air you breathe.
Lar
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