The advantage of mercury thermometer is a stable accuracy in temperature measurement. The main drawback of the thermometer is easy to smash it. One embarrassing movement is enough so that toxic silver balls scattered around the room. In order to avoid mercury poisoning, it is necessary to immediately collect a dangerous substance.

What is dangerous mercury?

When hitting mercury, it is divided into small balls that are instantly rolled around the room. Mercury drops rolled into the cracks of the plinth and floor, penetrate the underground space and settle in the carpet's pile. Toxic hazardous substance evaporates at 18 ° C, poisoning air indoors.

Finding into the human body, mercury from the broken thermometer has a local irritant effect and causes internal poisoning of the kidneys, cardiovascular and central nervous system. Avoid intoxication will help recommendations what to do if a thermometer with mercury crashed.

What to do if a thermometer crashed

If you broke mercury degreeIt is important to correct demurcurization. It includes the withdrawal and disposal of mercury balls in the expenditure zone. To remove toxic mercury balls yourself, you need to perform the following steps:

• Display people from the room, close the door tightly and open the windows for venting.
• Feel the respirator, rubber gloves and booties.
• Fill the glass jar in half water, put a mercury thermometer into it with the remnants of mercury and tightly close the capacitance with a lid.
• Every 15 minutes you need to take a break. Go to the air and drink more cold water.
• For 3 weeks, there is a daily room and disinfect the place where mercury broke out.

How to remove mercury if a thermometer crashed?

Toxic mercury balls are rolled out everywhere. More often, they are concentrated in the creams of the floor and walls, on the surface of the floor covering and on the carpet. Prepare to collect mercury:

• medical wool and plaster
• tight sheet of paper or cardboard
• glass jar with a hermetic lid
• medical syringe and long knitting needles
• mANGANGE AND GLORK
• latex gloves
• disinfectants
• lantern and small pieces of fabric
• polyethylene packages for collecting contaminated things.

It is necessary to limit the plot as much as possible where the mercury thermometer crashed. Liquid mercury sticks to the sole of shoes and spread around the apartment. Put on gloves and place a broken thermometer into a jar with water. Start the collection of mercury balls, moving from the periphery of the lesion zone to the center.

How to collect mercury with smooth coating

Collecting toxic mercury droplets from the table or floor can be performed in several ways:

• With the help of a drafts, liquid balls are sucking, after which mercury is placed in a glass jar.
• Mercury is collected from the floor on a sheet of paper or foil, helping the tassel.
• With the help of paper napkins or sheets of newspaper moistened with sunflower oil or water.
• Mercury toxic drops are great to the plaster or scotch.
• Mercury is collected by cotton sponges moistened in the solution of manganese.

After cleaning the mercury particles 2-3 times, treat the room with chlorine, manganese or soap solution. For floor washing, use unnecessary flavors of the fabric, as they will have to be thrown away. If the thermometer is broken in the kitchen, it is better to move kitchen utensils.

What to do if a thermometer crashed on the carpet or sofa

For processing not very darous surfaces, palaces, dermal and leather sofas, the same tools are suitable as for cleaning mercury from the floor. It is more difficult to collect mercury balls that are inside the carpet with a long pile. Stages of carpet cleaning:

• Collect the edges of the carpet to the middle so that the liquid metal does not focus on the floor.
• Put the carpet into a dense cellophane package and remove it to the street.
• Locate to Earth, Kleenka or Celofan, so that mercury did not hit the soil. Post the carpet over unfit glued.
• Smooth blows knock out mercury balls from the carpet. Mercury from the cape collect and place in the glass container.
• Carpet Welcome within 3 months or hang it for a long time in the garage.

How to get mercury from the gaps

Collecting mercury from floor or walls - difficult, but performing the task. There are several ways to solve the problem:

• Use the Gypsy needle or a long knitting needle for which watches moistened with water.
• Pour sand into the crack and sweep it with a tassel along with mercury balls.

Is it possible to collect mercury balls with a magnet? Mercury is a liquid metal, so it is easily magnetic. During the procedure, you need to wear thick rubber gloves. They should be removed so that the magnet with the mercury balls adhered to it is inside the glove.

What can not be done when collecting mercury

It is strictly forbidden to use a vacuum cleaner to collect mercury. The air heated by vacuum cleaner accelerates the evaporation of a poisonous liquid metal. Mercury is delayed on the details of the device, making it a distributor of poisonous vapor.

If a member of your family broke a homely thermometer, you will have to assemble mercury drops from a broken thermometer. To do everything right, it is worth seeing thematic photos and videos. This will help protect close to the effects of poisonous mercury poisoning.

Discussion

The question is good. For the first time I saw in the hospital as a sidework crashed and mercured on small beads was stuck on the floor. They collected their napkin to each other to get a single ball. I was then 10 years about. But in the end it turned out that it was impossible to do so! What it was necessary to urgently inform the medical post, the TC mercury toxic and quickly evaporates, and we breathe it. I know for sure that you need to open the windows, wear packets on your feet, no matter how to collect a broom or a vacuum cleaner or a cloth.

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Discussion

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Discussion

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call in the Ministry of Emergency Situations

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Here, read:
The actions of the population when spilling mercury indoors.
If in the room there is a mercury thermometer:
output from the premises of all people, first of all children, disabled people, people of old age;
open the label all windows indoors;
maximize the polluted room from the people, close all the doors tightly;
immediately start collecting mercury: collect big balls with fringe bar and immediately drop them into a glass jar with a solution (2 g of potassium permanganate for 1 liter of water), smaller balls with a brush on paper and also drop into the jar. The jar is tightly close the lid. The use of a vacuum cleaner to collect mercury is prohibited;
wash the contaminated seats with a soda solution (400 grams of soap and 500 grams of calcined soda by 10 liters of water) or potassium permanganate solution (20 grams per 10 liters of water);
close the room after processing so that they are not connected to other premises and ventilate for three days;
hold indoors, if possible, the temperature is not lower than 18-200c to reduce the processing time during all work;
slend and rinse a strong, almost black solution of manganese soles of shoes if you stepped on mercury.
If mercury is spread more than in the sidmaker
keep calm, avoid panic;
output all people from the premises, help children, disabled people and older people - they are subject to evacuation primarily;
protect the respiratory organs at least a wet marlevant;
observe the numerals of all windows;
isolate the most contaminated room, close all the doors tightly;
quickly collect documents, values, drugs, products and other necessary things;
printed electricity and gas, extinguish the fire in the stoves before leaving the house;
immediately call specialists through the local state body For emergency situations and civil protection. As a last resort, call the police.
The struggle with a large number of mercury and its vapor is very complex. Chemists call it demarization.

Demercurination is carried out in two ways:

chemical-mechanical - mechanical collection of mercury balls with further processing of contaminated surface with chemical reagents (after such a processing method, the room requires enhanced ventilation);
mechanical - mechanical collection of mercury balls from the surface with the next floor replacement, plaster or overhaul Buildings (this method can be applied with chemical-mechanical).
If you discovered or saw mercury balls in any other place, please let me know immediately local organs on emergency situations and civil protection of the population or the police.

Mercury out broken thermometer When hit, it is broken into small drops and dissipates on the room. At least, go out into the street, find the nearest Tajik, give him a money to avoid intoxication will help recommendations, how to collect mercury from a broken thermometer.

Discussion

White bread, ball. In myself absorbs great mercury!

02/17/2000 23:52:15, Nastya

It is necessary to pour everything with a very strong manganese solution: it oxidizes it and turns into powder (which does not evaporate). Well, and rinse it well. When deactivators come, they are exactly what they do.

02/16/2000 00:23:22, Julia

Today, probably there is no such person who would not have risen the body temperature. In order to determine exactly how much it rose or decreased, there are special devices. Despite the fact that today electronic thermometers are sold literally at every step, nevertheless, many people continue to use thermal devices containing mercury. This is due to the fact that the latter are more reliable and much less often mistaken. But such degrees have one large drawback - inside them are made to mercury, capable of causeing severe intoxication. Therefore, everyone should have an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat needs to be done if a mercury thermometer crashed in the apartment.

First actions

To smash a thermometer with mercury in a residential room - this is not a pleasant situation, but if this happened, you should keep calm. Toxic substance can be collected without having received absolutely no harm for his health. The thing is that poisoning does not occur instantly. As a rule, mercury pairs can harm the body at a prominance of several hours. The first signs of poisoning with a hazardous substance are severe weakness, headache, as well as heavy breathing. In addition, an unpleasant metal taste may appear in the mouth.

Therefore, if a thermometer crashed at home, then it is not necessary to show carelessness, as it can be very crying to end. Some people simply sweep mercury balls into the scoop and throw them into a bucket, after which they breathe toxic evaporations. In addition, there is no guarantee that you can collect completely all mercury.

So how should I crashed a mercury thermometer in the apartment? What to do and how to properly collect a dangerous substance? The most important thing is to calm down. This will allow you to properly coordinate and take the necessary measures.

Ask to get out of the premises of foreign people

Carsed mercury thermometer in the apartment? What to do? The first actions are to ask for all people to free the room. This is especially true for children, pregnant women and old people. If you have a dog or a cat at home, then it is better to bring them to another room so that they do not hurt to poisonous couples and did not spawn mercury into neighboring rooms.

It is not difficult to mercury itself, and its evaporation. This substance begins to melt at a temperature of about 40 degrees, so if the room is cooler, then there should be no evaporation. Nevertheless, it is better not once again not to risk and reveal all the windows. This will make it possible to slowly cool the room and prevent the release of poisonous evaporation. It is important here and not overdo it, since mercury balls can frozen and break.

Preparatory work

Carsed mercury thermometer in the apartment, what to do?

The actions are as follows:

• put on the boots (if they are not at hand, you can use polyethylene packages);
• put on clothes, sewn of synthetics (artificial materials are much less absorbed toxic evaporations);
• put the protective mask to which I put wet gauze. Alternatively, a wet towel can be used;
• put the rubber gloves.

It is worth noting that all the clothes and means of protection after cleaning the room will have to throw out, so use only old things that will not be sorry to throw out.

In addition to uniforms, you will need the following inventory:

• several album sheets;
• brush with a soft brush;
• glass container, which can be sealed, should be filled with manganese solution;
• syringe;
• wet newspaper;
• scotch;
• rag.

So what to do if the mercury thermometer crashed in the apartment? If everything you need is at hand, you can start eliminating the threat. To localize the distribution of toxic vapors, plan all the doors, and put the wet cloth under them. You can also call the Ministry of Emergency Situations and ask you to advise you about what measures should be taken in the current situation.

Carsed the mercury thermometer in the apartment - what to do and how to remove? Everything is very easy and simple if you stick to certain advice and recommendations. Take a landscape sheet and a brush with a soft brush, moisten it in manganese solution and carefully roll the mercury ball on paper. Very small balls are removed using a tape.

Well inspect every angle and gaps. If mercury is discovered in them, you can collect it with a syringe. If the toxic substance fell under flooring Or plinth, then they need to be removed and collect mercury, because if it remains there, the dangerous evaporation will poison all who are in the room.

What to do if the mercury thermometer crashed in the apartment and mercury got on the carpet or soft furniture? In this case, it will be quite difficult to collect a substance. The optimal option is to take things out of town and burn. In addition, you can take furniture to the cottage and leave it on the street for several months. During this time, mercury under the influence of sun rays should be completely evaporated.

When collecting mercury, it is forbidden to use a vacuum cleaner and broom. The thing is that the vacuum cleaner can disseminate poisonous evaporation throughout the apartment, and if you use a broom, the rods will break the balls into small particles, which will be impossible to collect.

When cleaning the room from mercury, it is necessary to periodically go to fresh air to ride. It is not recommended to breathe toxic evaporation longer than 15 minutes. This is especially true of those cases if it is hot in the room and it does not manage to cool it a little. When leaving the room, you should definitely remove the boots in order not to make mercury all over the apartment.

Final Stage

Carsed mercury thermometer in the apartment, what to do? How to collect mercury balls, we have already considered, but how to finally clean the room from this substance? To completely eliminate the threat, it is necessary to process all surfaces in the room. For this, a special solution is used, to prepare which it will be necessary to dilute 20 grams of potassium permaganate by 10 liters. warm water. If you suddenly do not have any of this, then use the usual "whiteness".

Take the washcloth washup, moisten it in the solution and thoroughly process all the surfaces. Do not disregard not one gap. Inaccessible places should be treated from the sprayer.

When the processing is completed, open all windows for a while to ventilate the room. Wherein interior doors Must be closed so that the draft does not spread poisonous pairs throughout the apartment.

Disposal of mercury

So, the mercury thermometer crashed in the apartment, what to do? We have already talked about what you will need to harvest mercury, and also how the process of cleaning the room is directly. But what to do with the collected mercury? All clothes, protective equipment and inventory should be placed in a plastic bag and properly dispose of. In no case do not throw things on the garbage dump.

If a mercury thermometer crashed in the apartment - what to do? Reviews of people who collided with a similar situation, say that the thermometer is best collected mercury Pass to recycling in a special service. It is worth noting that the staff of this service does not always agree to take mercury, but should be insisted on their own. If it does not work anything, you can contact private companies that utilize mercury on a fee basis.

Carsed mercury thermometer in the apartment? What to do, we already know. But what does not be recommended in this case?

It is better not to take the following actions:

1. To air the room S. open doors In the nearby room. A draft can disseminate small droplets of mercury throughout the housing, resulting in finding and collecting from will be very problematic.
2. Never collect mercury by a broom. The rods only break the balls into smaller, which will only aggravate the situation.
3. It is forbidden to use a vacuum cleaner to collect mercury. Air flows will distribute mercury throughout the room, which can lead to disastrous consequences.
4. Use or store things in the apartment, absorbed mercury, it is impossible. They should be burned.
5. Throw mercury to the landfill or in the sewer is prohibited. It is required to dispose of it.

Preventive actions

If a mercury thermometer crashed in the apartment, what to do is needed to protect yourself from poisoning and others negative consequences? After the room is completely purified from mercury and processed by disinfecting solutions, it is necessary to remove all the clothes, in which cleaning was performed, take a shower, put on clean clothes, and rinse the mouth with a weak soda solution. In addition, try to drink as much as possible, especially herbal teas and milk. This will help to help the kidneys to remove toxins from the body.

In what cases without the help of specialists can not do?

Carsed a mercury thermometer in the apartment - what to do if not to find the tip? The best way out is to cause qualified specialists. This also applies to those cases when the thermometer was divided into small non-refined rooms. If you try to collect mercury yourself, you can strongly imagine to poisonous couples and get very difficult poisoning.

Mercury begins to boil and allocate evaporation at a temperature slightly above 38 degrees, so if it falls on a hot surface, the room almost instantly fill in poisonous evaporation.

Also, if you suspect that mercury balls could remain somewhere, then you should not risk. Call the SanEpidemstation immediately and call professionals for the necessary measures for disinfection of residential premises. Carsed mercury thermometer in the apartment, what to do? In St. Petersburg, Moscow and other major cities there are an alternative action of actions, namely an environmental expertise. Specialists will check the level of mercury evaporation in the room, and also utilize the broken thermometer and mercury balls.

Independent cleaning of the room from mercury is not recommended for people falling into a group of increased risk.

These include:

• women carrying fruit;
• children and the elderly;
• people who have any chronic diseases of the genitour and CNS.

All other people can independently assemble mercury balls, subject to all the rules and recommendations listed earlier in this article.

What to do in case of poisoning?

Carsed mercury thermometer in the apartment? What to do in this case, has already been considered earlier, but how to be, if the poisoning of poisonous pairs occurred?

The main signs of poisoning are:

• strong migraines;
• the weakness of the body;
• increased irritability;
• shiver in the limbs;
• nausea;
• sharp loss of body weight;
• the taste of the metal in the oral cavity.

Signs of poisoning in most cases are manifested approximately 5-6 hours after a person has hit poisonous pairs. If this still happened, then you should contact the hospital as soon as possible to pass the survey.

Within mercury hydrays, a very dangerous substance can lead to very strong poisoning. Therefore, in order to eliminate the likelihood of intoxication, from 2020, mercury thermometers will be completely removed from sale, and their use in medical institutions will be prohibited. These measures are fully justified, since cases of people's appeal to a hospital with mercury evaporation poisoning are quite frequent.

If you use a mercury thermometer, it is very important to comply with certain rules on their storage and operation. Store the thermometer should be solely in a protective case in places that are not available for children. The temperature must be shot down from pieces of furniture and walls to accidentally do not hit the thermometer about them and not break it. If your child fell ill and you want to measure its temperature, then do not move away from the baby to any step so that he does not accidentally drop the thermometer.

Electronic thermometers although not always, but still allow you to measure the exact body temperature. Therefore, in order to completely eliminate the likelihood of mercury infection, refuse the use of mercury thermometers. Use electronic measuring instruments, and your family will be in complete safety.

Conclusion

Break the glass thermometer containing mercury is quite simple, so try to be extremely careful when using them. If suddenly you smashed it, then try not to succumb to a panic. In order to completely clean the room from mercury, it is better to leave your home for a while and provide all professionals with the necessary experience and skills on disinfection of premises from mercury and its evaporation.

Mercury thermometers for temperature measurement are widely popular because they show a fairly accurate result. However, despite this, the thermometer has an unpleasant feature to be broken. In the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe defeat, silver mercury balls are rolled out, which represent a serious threat to a person. Not everyone knows how to eliminate leakage. In this case, care must be taken.

Pluses of mercury thermometer

1. The device of the medical orientation accurately measures the body temperature, unlike electronic analogs. To date, such a thermometer is considered the most correct.
2. The thermometer is able to measure temperature indicators even under extreme surrounding conditions, whether cold or sultry heat. In this case, there are practically no deviations. Therefore, people prefer measuring the temperature in this way.
3. Health and medical facilities are used to using a mercury thermometer due to its disinfection. It is enough to immerse the instrument into a special solution to disinfect.
4. To date, during the crisis, people try to save on everything, including medicines and devices of this orientation. The mercury thermometer is cheap, so absolutely everyone is available.
5. The main advantage is the ease of use. Even a teenager under the supervision of parents can measure the temperature. For comparison, the electronic analogue is often "jams".

Cons mercury thermometer

1. There is no time and patience to keep the thermometer with an armpit. The temperature measurement is sometimes 7-10 minutes. This option is unacceptable for occupied categories of persons.
2. The measuring rod is placed in a flask made of very thin glass. The material is extremely fragile, therefore, with improper handling often beats. From the cavity follows mercury, which later turns into poisonous pairs. It is not always possible to remove leakage without harm to health.

What danger carries mercury from the thermometer

1. Mercury refers to liquid toxic metals. When heated and approximate temperatures +18 degrees, it evaporates, forming a poisonous pairs. Very often mercury balls are spread throughout the room and clogged into hard-to-reach slots, shoes, carpeted coating.
2. Mercury does not smell, but it does not make it less poisonous. Metal freezes only at -37 degrees, so this aspect does not count at home.
3. After the thermometer is broken, mercury quickly follows from a special rod and forms small balls. They slide well and evaporate as quickly, it all depends on the air temperature in the room. The higher the indicators, the stronger the decomposition and further poisoning.
4. Accidents occur after the vapor in the respiratory tract. Interestingly, just 1.5-2 grams. Liquid metal can be placed up to 10 people. It is such a number of mercury accumulates a thermometer.
5. After the inhalation of poisonous vapors, toxic compounds are settled in the brain, heart muscle, lungs and bronchops, liver, kidneys and skin. Often the body sprinkles, the stomatitis in the oral cavity is formed, kidneys and CNS are affected. With prolonged exposure to mercury on the body begins the mind of the mind.
6. The first signs of mercury poisoning will be noticeable after 3.5-4 hours after the incident. Symptoms show themselves in the form of dizziness, migraine, weakness, strong fatigue, vomit urges and nausea. Next, the intestinal disorder begins, the bleeding of adhesion, painful feelings in the throat.
7. If after meal poisoning was not rendered first aid, the situation is complicated. Often the body temperature rises to a critical mark of 40 degrees, a strong cough appears, the respiratory tract appears and lungs are inflated.

What should not be done if a thermometer crashed

• do not use the vacuum cleaner, because after that it will have to throw it;
• do not collect balls without protective gloves, otherwise mercury absorbed into the skin;
• do not create drafts in the apartment so that poisonous evaporations do not move to other premises;
• do not throw out mercury into the garbage bucket, toilet, sink;
• do not sweep the balls so as not to break them into smaller drops;
• do not erase things to come to mercury, immediately spend their disposal.

First call the Ministry of Emergency Situations, report the problem and wait for the arrival of specialists. And by this time, spend a number of the following actions:

1. Ask the relatives to leave the room in which mercury leakage occurred. Close the door is very tight so that possible pairs do not succeed through the slots.
2. Open windows for venting if there is no sultry heat on the street. Make yourself a gauze bandage or use the respirator to protect the respiratory tract.
3. Cover the skin with very thick rubber gloves, put on the feet of shoe covers or plastic food packages.
4. Prepare a glass jar with a lid, fill the cavity cold water Before the middle. Place inside the debris of the thermometer, block the container and remove away.
5. Take other containers to put the tools in them that in touch with mercury balls. Close it hermetically and take it out of the reach.
6. In the process of liquidation of liquid metal, take a break every quarter of an hour. For this period, go out to breathe fresh air, be sure to drink a lot of water.
7. After eliminating the consequences of a broken thermometer for a crescent every day, do a room several times. It is important to completely remove possible mercury evaporation from the room.

How to collect mercury correctly

1. When breaking the thermometer, mercury is scattered around the room. Silver balls can be clogged into floor slots and carpet. To eliminate the consequences of a similar problem, it is necessary to prepare and act clearly.
2. To do this, you need a medical wool, a small piece of fabric, a plaster and a tight sheet of paper. Highlight individual garbage bags under things that came to mercury. Be sure to take a glass container with a hermetic lid.
3. In addition, you will need a gypsy needle or knitting needles and syringe for collecting mercury balls. Take a bright flashlight, manganese solution, chlorine and household rubber gloves. Also need a disinfectant.
4. Consider, when collecting mercury, there should be no one else, besides you. Try to limit the place where the thermometer crashed. Mercury adhesions well to different surfaces and things, as a result, the metal is distributed throughout the apartment.
5. The collection should occur from the circumference to the epicenter. Put the rubber gloves, arouse all necessary and carefully carry out the operation. Light the surface with a flashlight, do not skip the joints on the floor.
6. You can unsubscribe liquid mercury balls using a medical syringe. Next, the metal is placed in a pre-prepared container. Also, mercury is assembled with paper napkins, moistened with vegetable oil.
7. Alternative and no less effective way to collect a toxic metal will serve as a patch or tape. Do not forget about the sheet of foil or paper. Collect on the canvas mercury with a brush.
8. Moisten cotton discs in manganese solution and collect mercury balls. After careful collection of liquid metal, the room must be disinfected several times. Take advantage of aimed action.

1. Remember, all the remedies and tools must be chosen from the current situation and the scale of the lesion. If you collect mercury from nonvilous surfaces, the attributes used in the first case are fully used for these purposes.
2. If you have a long vass carpets in your house, where mercury can clearly get stuck, in this case you have to make a lot of strength to fix everything. The edges of the palace will have to be subject to, and if possible to raise. Thus, toxic metal will not roll on the floor.
3. Place a darous carpet into a dense cellophane bag. Take the attribute to the street. Warl on the ground the liner suitable in size with the carpet. Suspend attribute over polyethylene. Start the carpet with unsiler movements.
4. All mercury, which crept on the liner, collect in the glass container, close the lid tightly. Next, it is recommended to take a carpet into the street more often. You can also place an attribute for a long time in the garage. After a few weeks, the carpet fully ventures. The garage should be dry.

Mercury harness

Magnet

1. Regarding the similar method of collecting mercury there are contradictory disputes. Some argue that the method is pretty good, others assure that liquid metal is simply not a magnetic.
2. If you decide to resort to manipulation, be sure to arm with dense gloves, after getting rid of them and the magnet.

Knitting needles

1. Perhaps the cleaning of mercury from the slots is the most difficult, there is still a way to get rid of toxic metal. To do this, you need a long knitting needle.
2. Moisten medical wool in the water, wrap her metal rod. Fail with small sand. Next, take it out of his needle with mercury.

After the thermometer fell out of the hands and crashed, it is necessary to recycle liquid metal droplets. It is important to collect all mercury, even if she fell into hard-to-reach places.

Video: What to do if the thermometer crashed

All people in one degree or another follow their health. At the occurrence of ailment, it is necessary to measure the body temperature. This simple and safe procedure allows you to quickly and accurately determine the condition of the body.

More often, mercury hydraulic devices are used for this purpose, as they are inexpensive and more accurate than their electronic analogs. The disadvantage of glass mercury thermometers is that they should be broken.

Emerging mercury can cause serious harm to the human body, so you need to be able to quickly and correctly remove it from the surface to which she got. Despite the rarity of such situations, everyone should know how to collect mercury from the floor.

What is dangerous mercury for a person?

Most often mercury is bottled from the broken thermometer or lamp

Mercury is the only metal that room temperature Located in a liquid state. It is a white-silver liquid that begins to evaporate already at + 18 ° C.

To mercury turned into a solid substance, it needs to be cooled to -38 ° С, which at home is hard to achieve. From the broken thermal room, it follows in the form of balls flying along the floor in all directions. Rutty balls swam in different places at room temperature begin to evaporate, poisoning air.

Mercury poisoning occurs when overpaying its vapors into the human body. When air is inhaled with a mercury content of 0.25 mg in 1 m3 of air, the substance settles in the lungs.

With a larger concentration, the pair of liquid metal absorbed light and human skin.

In one sidewater, 2 grams of substances that translated into milligrams is 2000 mg. Such a quantity of mercury is able to be placed with a rapid evaporation from 6000 to 8000 m3 of air. The volume of air in the apartment of 50-60 m2 is 125-150 m3. If a thermometer crashed, then the volume of a hazardous substance may be enough for poisoning 10 people.

The most dangerous - mercury pairs

Poisoning at low concentrations of the substance does not occur instantly, although in some cases a weak non-resistant to mercury can get an excess dose in minutes.

After entering the body, mercury settles in human organs, making great harm to the heart, kidneys, liver, light, brain and skin. The first symptoms can manifest a few hours later, so it is immediately difficult to disassemble the degree of poisoning.

Poisoning of metal couples occurs very quickly

The first symptoms include weakness and dizziness. Then comes nausea and migraine. Further, the stomach disorder begins, the pain in the throat and bleeding from the adhesion and the nose. All this leads to a strong heat, coughing and inflammation of the lungs, which are accompanied by easets, including respiratory tract. In extreme cases, mental disorder occurs when a person's consciousness can shake.

A big danger lies in the fact that mercury does not smell, taste and bright color. The so-called silver water can remain completely invisible for a person for a long time.

It is important to know that children and women are exposed to a greater degree of mercury poisoning.

Safe cleaning of mercury

Before collecting mercury from a broken thermometer, you need to quickly make a certain preparation. It is also necessary to quickly select suitable tools to completely get rid of the harmful substance.

Order of initial actions

If a thermometer crashed, and mercile balls rolled on the floor, first of all, it is necessary to withdraw from the place of children. Then, all those who will not participate in cleaning, including pets, should leave it.

After all the extra left the room, you need to open the windows to enjoy fresh air. The door should be tightly closed. The conductivity procedure is desirable to perform so that the drafts do not carry air to other rooms.

Collect metal balls with a syringe or fringe

Before gathering mercury from a thermometer from the floor, it is necessary to protect gloves and a vanity-mareline bandage. Gloves are desirable to have rubberized or completely rubber. Bandage to protect the respiratory tract can be moistened in soda solution. This will give great protection. A bandage can be made independently of bandages or gauze.

It should not step on mercury balls, so it is better to wear some shoes on the legs wrapped in Celofan.

Before removing mercury, all fragments of the smashed thermal man are going. In order not to cut down, it is necessary to put them in a gentially in a jar with water, which will be subsequently closed with a lid and to recycle.

All these measures must be taken before the start of the collection of mercury. The most important thing will take care of the safety of others.

How and what is going to mercury

Mercury must be assembled into water tank. This is done so that the liquid metal cooled and stop evaporated. See this video more about the collection of mercury:

To collect mercury balls, the following adaptations are well.

1. Sprintsovka - a medical rubber pear is very well suited for collecting malicious mercury balls. It is also tightened even by the balls.
2. A large syringe without a needle, as well as a fringe, will well draw a malicious liquid metal.
3. Mercury balls stick to the scotch, adhesive tape and leucoplasty.
4. With the help of a tassel, you can remove the balls of the substance, rolling them onto a sheet of paper or foil. Then, assembled on a plate of malicious material, must be placed in a jar with water.
5. Wadded products, moistened in water, sunflower oil or manganese, can also be used to collect mercury. She will stick to them.

The most important thing is to clean the cleaning calmly, consistently and neatly. When using protection tools, mercury pairs will not be able to apply harm. Therefore, by performing the initial actions in the prescribed manner, it is possible to consistently engage in the assembly of the split balls. It is important to send all the assembled elements into the water tank that you need to keep closed.

Premises processing and precautions

After cleaning the room in which mercury scattered, it is necessary to wash carefully. This can be done using chlorine-containing fluid. The chlorine solution is required to wash the floor, plinth and the wall capabilities. Chlorine solution must be left for 15-20 minutes, after which it washed clean water. For details on the principles of cleaning, see this video:

For 7-10 days, the room is required to air daily. It is advisable to maintain a high temperature indoors so that the remnants of mercury can evaporate, leave the room. Ventilation is performed with dense closed doorTo avoid drafts and moving potentially dangerous air to other rooms.

It is impossible to stay in the room at night until the complete end of preventive processing. Hardened under the plinth or another inaccessible place The mercury ball can cause considerable harm to human health.

Personal hygiene measures after cleaning

Personal clothes in which cleaning was cleaned, it is necessary to hang out on the street for ventilation. Then it must be subjected to chemical cleaning.

After completion of cleaning, you need to wash your hands with soap. Then you need to thoroughly clean your teeth and rinse the oral cavity with a manganese solution. After that, you can take a shower for cleaning the entire body.

In order to prevent the person who killed mercury, up to 10 tablets of activated carbon can be taken. It is also recommended to drink during the day, as much water as possible, from 3 to 5 liters.

All other things of the interior who had contact with mercury are going and put on the street. It will be used only after chemical processing.

The first drug in mercury poisoning - activated carbon

Depending on the complexity of the situation, you can contact specialized services that will help eliminate infection. Work both government organizations based on sanitary epidemiological stations and private companies certified in this field.

As a last resort, you can contact the hotline 01 in the elimination of emergency situations to receive consultations and the procedures for the time until you get the rapid response machine.

Mercury in different amounts are contained in thermometers, thermometers, fluorescent lamps, TVs and other techniques.

If you get into the open space of this Metal Human health, it is necessary to accurately and consistently perform the entire set of actions aimed at protecting a number of people who are.

Mercury pairs are a strong poison. It is important to remember this when contacting it with beautiful white-silver balls.