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From: forbes@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Jeff Forbes)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Zap, fry, and sizzle
Message-ID: <1990Feb22.033429.21504@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 90 03:34:29 GMT
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In article <1990Feb22.021702.24662@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu writes:
>|Fluorescent tubes :  Best if thrown like a javelin. Very loud if stood
>|		     upright and allowed to fall on hard surface.
>
>Be careful with these, they contain poisonous compounds of mercury in
>the coating.

The tube contains metallic mercury. The coating sometimes contains beryllium
compounds, which are very toxic.

	Jeff