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From: mike@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.physics,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Mercury Filled Speaker Wire
Message-ID: <198@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 12:18:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 21 12:18:24 1987
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In article <630@ccnysci.UUCP> sukenick@ccnysci.UUCP (George Sukenick) writes:
>>As an example of a horror story, some people I know had a small bottle
>>[of mercury, there was a fire, the house was condemned dur to the mercury]
>
>Thats probably all it is, a horror story ... unless:
>Everyone, quick! throw out your thermometers and barometers or else
>your house will be condemned too if hit by fire!  :-)

No, this really did happen. Mercury is sold in plastic bottles, in case
you didn't know, and it tends to melt at a much lower temperature
than the glass they use in thermometers etc. Also, there really isn't 
much mercury in a thermometer, and this was a 2 1/2 pound bottle of
the straight metal.

Please be careful of accusing someone of having an overly vivid
imagination!



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Michael Lodman  (619) 485-3335
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