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Duration: 03:58 minutes Upload Time: 2007-08-16 23:33:58 User: AScannerClearly :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day |
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Description: A demonstration of this metal's fluidity, how to view its vapours, and whether a magnet has any noticeable effects on it. Music: "Near's Theme", Death Note OST #3 |
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| AScannerClearly ::: Favorites 2007-12-20 01:11:16 May I ask exactly how you came to be exposed to a dangerous level of Hg? __________________________________________________ | |
| barada42 ::: Favorites 2007-12-19 09:08:39 As someone who has gone through a year (so far) of treatment for my exposure to mercury, I can't urge you more strongly to get that stuff to a recycling depot or some place capable of receiving hazardous waste, and put these experiments behind you. You clearly do not possess a facility capable of handling such experiments safely. Get rid of this crap, there is no good reason to be playing with this or promoting playing with it on YouTube! __________________________________________________ | |
| Marisaftwffs ::: Favorites 2007-12-09 17:56:35 LMFAO, mercury does nothing to your if you hold it for under an hour, dumbass, and the fumes, only if you breathe near it for at least 3 hours it will cause toxation in lungs. __________________________________________________ | |
| mifinl1 ::: Favorites 2007-12-07 19:11:17 lol there is a video of a guy holding mercury here too... lol __________________________________________________ | |
| nitrex ::: Favorites 2007-12-02 10:33:11 No it can't be absorbed in your skin and i have the methods to also prove it. First the metal is very heavy, its denser then water you should know this by now, the second thing is that mercury cannot react with your skin because its an inert metal. Also no scientist has proved this till now, this was a theory, search it. __________________________________________________ | |
| garrett1992004 ::: Favorites 2007-12-02 01:51:04 Mercury is a very deadly neurotoxin and if you hold in your bare hands, because it's a heavy metal, will "soak" through your skin, get into your blood stream. If that happens there's not much that can medically be done for you. DO NOT HOLD IT!!! IT IS EXTREMELY TOXIC! IT WILL KILL YOU! __________________________________________________ | |
| AScannerClearly ::: Favorites 2007-11-24 18:19:09 Yeah, we've got the Sodium Vapor lamps, Mercury Vapor, and Metal-Halide lamps, all 3 contain mercury but only the straight Mercury-Vapor will have the proper spectrum to be absorbed. And yeah, the shortwave UV is filtered out by those by the borosilicate glass envelope surrounding the inner quartz tube. __________________________________________________ | |
| bionerd23 ::: Favorites 2007-11-24 16:01:52 lol, i just found out that mercury vapor isnt visible in long-wave UV myself. ;-) hmmm, you have mercury vapor lamps in your streets in the US? o_O in germany, we only have sodium vapor lamps. well, high pressure sodium lamps contain mercury as well, i think - but yet, the lamps only emit long-wave light; red and yellow, with some green and going slightly into the blue area... but no short wave ultra violet afaik. __________________________________________________ | |
| AScannerClearly ::: Favorites 2007-11-23 18:04:08 Well your experiment certainly trumps my guessing lol. The visible light may have washed it out, but either way getting a shortwave UV lamp would be the most effective. __________________________________________________ | |
| endimion17 ::: Favorites 2007-11-23 15:18:20 It is the energetic UV that mercury readily absorbs. I've tried with fluorescent tube, one side opened. The plasma inside was clearly visible as a blue fog, rich with UV-C, but no mercury shadow. It faded because there was lot of visible light shining from within.I don't know. Seems to be too complicated. __________________________________________________ | |
| AScannerClearly ::: Favorites 2007-11-23 11:50:15 It's just an idea though, if it works there's that small chance it'd save you from having to buy a shortwave lamp since they're a bit pricey. As for the Hg switches, I got them free; one from my own house switch since it was arcing and needed replaced, the others from 3 thermostats obtained from a neighbor. All my mercury has basically been saved from going to the landfill. __________________________________________________ | |
| AScannerClearly ::: Favorites 2007-11-23 11:38:58 The whiteness of those lights is mostly in the brain; take a prism or diffraction grating and you'll see those lights only emit strongly at violet, blue, green, and weakly at red, with only a few weak lines in-between, which is the mercury spectrum. So Hg vapor should absorb only those colors as well. How much energy each color is should be irrelevant. __________________________________________________ | |
| endimion17 ::: Favorites 2007-11-23 04:53:04 Those streetlamps produce white light that has more blue in it so that would make them even less energetic than blacklight. How much did the mercury switches cost? :) __________________________________________________ | |
| AScannerClearly ::: Favorites 2007-11-22 21:08:10 Yes, shortwave UV tubes are completely clear, so only the light made by the excited Mercury vapor is emitted. Longwave UV blacklights have a phosphor coating inside to produce more longwave UV from the internal shortwave, and those wavelengths by the phosphor aren't absorbed by the Hg vapor. I'm curious though, perhaps light from a Mercury Vapor street lamp might work too? __________________________________________________ | |
| endimion17 ::: Favorites 2007-11-22 19:02:29 So, shortwave is a must, for the observation of vapors. I tried with longwave, didn't help. Good video. __________________________________________________ | |
