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Re: Mercury in Vermont
Posted By: Don Miner In Response To: Re: Mercury in Vermont (TerryM)
Date: Saturday, 10 February 2007, at 2:08 p.m.
> You want to be a millionaire? Figure out an
> alternative to mercury. It just seems to me
> that with all our technology we could come
> up with something else that would brighten a
> flourescent tube. There was someone making a
> prototype of an electrode that used no
> mercury. I had some samples that I never
> tried and now I can't seem to find them. Did
> anyone here try them and what did you think?
O.K. Here is an idea whose time may be just around the corner, how about devising a way to inject mercury vapor directly into the tube while still on the manifold, just before filling with gas?
Or maybe a mercury vapor flask simliar to the gas flasks we use for argon and neon. What do you think? Don
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