An investigation to find out how much mercury energy-saving lamps contain has been conducted. Seventy-five commercially available lamps were tested, with encouraging results -- as far as mercury ...

The detection of elemental mercury vapor remains a critical challenge in environmental monitoring and industrial safety, given its toxicity and propensity for long-range atmospheric travel. Recent ...

Even if you aren’t a tube aficionado, you can’t help but be mesmerized by the blue glow inside a mercury vapor rectifier when it operates. It looks less like early 20th century tech and more like ...

Airborne mercury levels in some small-scale mining communities across Ghana have risen to alarming levels – more than 150 times higher than global safety limits, according to a new national study by ...

Industrial activity like coal-burning and mining has greatly increased the amount of mercury in our environment, so much so that it now contaminates rivers, lakes and waterways as far away as the ...

Exposure to mercury has long-lasting effects. In today's Academic Minute, part of Mercer University Week, Adam Kiefer looks into one way we can avoid exposure. Kiefer is Distinguished University ...

Airborne mercury levels in some small-scale mining communities across Ghana have risen to alarming levels – more than 150 times higher than global safety limits, according to a new national study by ...

Glen Cove High School has closed its auxiliary gym after tests found its floor leaking mercury vapor at concentrations nearly four times the legal limit. In an announcement posted on Aug. 1, Glen Cove ...

An ultraviolet (UV) LED in a surface-mount PLCC-2 package, the VLMU3100 by Vishay Intertechnology, serves as a solid-state replacement for mercury vapor lamps. Featuring a typical luminous intensity ...

The Glen Cove High School auxiliary gym floor is being replaced after testing found mercury vapor levels nearly four times the limit allowed by the state, according to district officials. Test results ...