Seminole High School locked down after student brings mercury-filled thermometer to class for chemis
84 replies, posted
One of my relatives friends works in a hazmat team where I live. Whenever there's a mercury spill (read: broken thermometer) in a school, they pretty much go over to where the spill was, dump sand on it, and vacuum up the sand, throw a air purifier in there, and no access to the room for a couple days. Bam done.
[QUOTE=markfu;38723137]Your grandfather played with mercury? My brother used mercury thermometers in Summer school (naturally someone broke one [what do you expect from middle schoolers?] and that class got canceled for a day.)[/QUOTE]
both my parents would steal thermometers from their parents and play with them
I think they are just a tiny bit autistic, i'm sure et did't path don ome
[editline]6th December 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;38729639]Seriously? People used to juggle mercury in their hands in schools and are they all dead? No, they're fucking fine, what's the big deal.[/QUOTE]
mercury is highly poisonous and fucks up your gonads
Pffff mercury is hardly dangerous unless your practically drinking the stuff, even then you'd have to do it for quite some time, many fish contain sometimes significant amounts of mercury yet no one is going around dropping dead from eating it.
The fact they called in hazmat for a sealed container of mercury totally baffles me.
[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;38730647]
mercury is highly poisonous and fucks up your gonads[/QUOTE]
Highly poisonous is quite debatable, a long term exposure will fuck you up but short term the effects are quite limited, there is plenty of stuff growing in your garden that will kill you within minutes.
I have a vial of about a full pound of mercury(not a lot), and it's safe. Grandfather collected it from mercury switches from old thermostats.
[QUOTE=zombays;38731071]Try to have babies now[/QUOTE]
Yes, because a single touch of mercury forever tainted me, and our physics teacher was obviously infertile from all the demonstrations he did with the stuff... Oh wait, no, he was an old dude with children and all.
[editline]7th December 2012[/editline]
By the way, mercury is seriously weird to touch. It's liquid, but completely dry, and also metallic.. Some cool shit that lesson was.
Also, for people that are overreacting to the super overreacting in this video should know that Mercury isn't really all that harmful if just touched. Ingested or vapors being breathed in on the other hand are not a good thing.
The reason why schools ban mercury (I am assuming this is why) is because kids can be stupid and dirty. Break a Mercury thermometer a kid can touch it and play with it and not wash his hands and then put his hands in his mouth and blah blah blah.
No real need to use mercury in a school setting anyway. Why not phase out and replace with something with less risk.
Is there a reason to overreact and call in a clean up crew for this? Not at all, but it doesn't hurt to eliminate the risk of using mercury thermometers. (Minimal risk anyway).
And to combat the whole, "well they use light bulbs with mercury" argument, kids don't hold the light bulbs in their hands and don't break light bulbs very often. A thermometer goes in the hand and on the table and is used and banged around. This use is a lot more susceptible to breakage than a light bulb that just sits in the ceiling all day.
[quote]Pinellas County Schools tell 10 News the students were told not to bring certain toxic elements from the periodic table, mercury included.[/quote]
lol seriously
to prove how foolish this school's actions were i drank mercury and i turned out alirighkjbeawglkblKJAlkjKNCz.,.znkzjvr
I don't get the fuss about mercury thermometers
In physics class we were given a jar of mercury to pass around and we spilled a good deal of it, made cool little beads etc, then started throwing them at eachother
In fact come to think of it, my physics class was absurdly dangerous on multiple occaisions
fuck the police
[img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-T2l611oy05Y/UME2l4Opt2I/AAAAAAAAAGk/pMC97HV2hME/s512/IMG_20121206_191849.jpg[/img]
guys I have a bioweapon
so I'm guessing bringing in polonium isn't allowed?
They should have just told him to put it away and give him a lower mark for not following instructions. But that would break the long and proud tradition of overreactions in the public school system.
[QUOTE=Twistshock;38723733]One of my old chemistry teachers (5 or so years ago) poured some mercury on each of our tables to demonstrate how it behaves. There was no lockdown, no complain, no anything. Same teacher also poured liquid nitrogen over our hands to demonstrate the layer or vapour it rapidly forms, preventing one's hands from getting cold too quickly.
He also showed us some radioactive stuff.[/QUOTE]
Did he bring in a slab of enriched uranium?
[QUOTE=Key_in_skillee;38725831]"deadly" is a bit of a misnomer
It causes poisoning, but it's a collective poison, like lead. As long as you aren't constantly surrounded by and exposed to the stuff, and don't do something like drink a bottle of it, it's not that dangerous.[/QUOTE]
DRINKING mercury is relatively safe compared to inhaling it.
My Physics teacher has a bottle filled with mercury, the bottle is made of a plastic about 1inch thick and there must be about a pint in it. In Year10 when we first started Physics he gave it to us to feel how dense heavy Mercury is.
He told us that he wasn't meant to have it :V
Didn't the first emperor of China eat solid mercury regularly for, like, decades?
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;38736738][img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-T2l611oy05Y/UME2l4Opt2I/AAAAAAAAAGk/pMC97HV2hME/s512/IMG_20121206_191849.jpg[/img]
guys I have a bioweapon[/QUOTE]
Mercury is expensive, that bottle full is worth at least $1000.
you europeans don't understand
in america, we sue th the school district if teachers yell at our kids
[editline]7th December 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;38739599]Didn't the first emperor of China eat solid mercury regularly for, like, decades?[/QUOTE]
where's he now? thats right dead
[QUOTE=Raidyr;38723069]Obama sabotaged this kids thermometer.[/QUOTE]
With Polonium-210.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
