styropyro | mechanical light bulb from 1675
Drake has fun with mercury
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The sound of that liquid mercury shaking around make's my skin crawl
The results of the last few bulbs are mind-blowing, this is such a weird effect
He says the mercury vapors are very dangerous. Then he use a vacuum pump to drain the bulbs. By doing so, isn't he releasing mercury vapors in this workshop or outside air ? Am I misunderstanding how this pump operates ?
Normally fume hoods have filters on the output. Some toxic elements still release into the atmosphere but at much lesser quantity. Dirty filters are then disposed of properly as a toxic waste.