How to clean up when the mercury is broken, and how to deal with the mercury when it is broken

If you want to clean up mercury, you need to do the following:1. Quickly take children and pets out of the room, and remember not to use vacuum cleaners, brooms, and rags to clean up mercury.

2. Clean up the mercury under the condition of keeping the room ventilated, if the room can adjust the temperature, try to reduce the room temperature, which can reduce the volatilization of mercury and promote condensation. If the mercury falls on a smooth ground such as tiles, you can use a cardboard shell, scraper, etc., and scrape from the periphery of the scattered part close to the ground to the center, you can see that the mercury balls will gradually gather into large balls, and then gently shovel up the mercury balls and close them into a plastic bag. If mercury is scattered on rough surfaces such as carpets or on the bed, you can tape them and then close them with the tape into a plastic bag, which is recommended to be layered in layers to prevent breakage and leakage.

3. Keep the room ventilated for at least 24 hours, open the fan and doors and windows as much as possible, do not enter the room during the ventilation process, if you do not properly handle the mercury or have cleaned the ground with a mop, etc., it is recommended to extend the ventilation time for at least 24 hours.

4. Treat mercury contaminated materials, for clothes and shoes contaminated with mercury, discarding is the best choice, or cleaning up many times, hanging in a place without children and good ventilation for 3-5 days, to ensure that mercury volatilization is complete, remember not to directly use the washing machine or dryer to wash clothes that may be contaminated with mercury.

Mercury is the heavy metal mercury (Hg), mercury leakage must be cautious and cautious, never touch it with your body. In addition, mercury is volatile, and mercury vapor will diffuse into the air and enter the human body with the respiratory tract or directly adhere to the surface of clothing, so protective measures must be taken.

1.Prepare sulphur powder before using mercury and sprinkle it with sulphur as soon as possible.

2. .If you don't have an S around, then the following method is also a good choice:

Look for stiffer paper, tape, plastic bags, and flashlights. If the mercury is located on a hard surface such as a tile, then you can use two pieces of paper to gather the visible mercury balls into a large ball, and move the mercury balls through the paper into a plastic bag like a shovel to seal the plastic bag. If mercury is spilled on a rough surface such as carpet, and it is difficult for a large number of small balls of mercury to gather together and clean up with pieces of paper, you can tape them and move them into a plastic bag with the tape.

It is recommended to put an extra layer on the plastic bag to prevent it from breaking and leaking. Because mercury is reflective, a flashlight can be used to help look for dark spots or particularly small particles of mercury. The broken glass is cleaned up in another plastic bag to prevent the broken glass from breaking the plastic bag containing the mercury.

3.Isolate the room where the mercury leaks from other rooms, maintain the best ventilation conditions in the room where the mercury leaks, and raise the temperature of the room if possible. If the other rooms are occupied, it is best to maintain good ventilation as well.

4.Enclose a plastic bag containing mercury in a glassware, such as a glass with a lid, and use paper on the outside of the cup to indicate that there is mercury inside. The mercury collected should be handed over to the sanitation department and should not be thrown directly into the drain or trash.

Treatment method after the mercury is broken: first of all, the window should be opened immediately for ventilation, and then in the collection process, you must pay attention to personal protection, you can use a moist cotton swab or tape to glue the mercury beads one by one, and finally the collected mercury, it is recommended not to discard it casually.

Mercury, whose chemical name is mercury (Hg), is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature, and it is chemically stable and volatile at room temperature.

Mercury vapor has chronic toxicity, it can invade the human body through the respiratory tract and ** and other ways, causing greater damage to the nervous system and kidney system, in a short period of time, exposure to high concentration of mercury vapor will produce headache, fatigue, chest pain, cough and other poisoning symptoms.

Scotch tape can be used to ensure that the mercury is removed cleanly.

Use scotch tape to ensure that the mercury is removed cleanly.

1. Stick tape along the ground along the mercury that may be scattered.

2. If you see the place where the tape is silver, it means that there is mercury. (It is not visible to the naked eye but can also be seen through the tape).

3. Roll the tape sticking to the ground inward little by little, and stick it firmly (note: roll it little by little, otherwise the mercury will fly) so that the tape stuck to the ground is no longer silver, which means that it has been cleaned up.

A thermometer contains about 2 grams of mercury, and the methods for mercury treatment are:

Method 1: Use about 7 grams of sulfur powder to sprinkle directly on the ground or cracks contaminated by mercury, leave it for 3 to 4 hours and then clean it; (It takes a long time, but sulfur powder is available in Chinese medicine stores).

Method 2: Find a small piece of ferric chloride (5-6 grams), add 10 ml of water, and then use a brush dipped in ferric chloride liquid to brush the mercury residue to form a non-toxic mercury and ferroalloy alloy, leave it for one hour and then clean. (Short time-consuming, disadvantages:.)

These chemicals are not easy to find and are only available in the chemical market).

Finally, mercury-containing contaminants are grouped together for specialized treatment.

The specific cleaning method is as follows:

1. Once the mercury supplies are broken, the mercury will form a sphere and roll off, wear a mask, turn off all heating devices in the room, and open the window for ventilation.

2. Wear gloves and sprinkle some sulfur powder on the polluted place of bed sheets, the reaction of sulfur and mercury can produce mercury sulfide that is not easily soluble in water, and the harm will be greatly reduced.

3. Since mercury can evaporate into a gaseous state at room temperature, it is easy to be inhaled into the respiratory tract and cause poisoning, so it is best to wear a mask when dealing with scattered mercury.

4. After the bed sheet cover contaminated by mercury is cleaned, it is best to dry it in the sun for a period of time before use, if it cannot be guaranteed to be cleaned, it can be cleaned off separately.

PS: Mercury is the only metal in a liquid state at room temperature and pressure, the scientific name is mercury, there is evaporation at room temperature, mercury is a highly toxic heavy metal pollutant in the environment, it is difficult to be discharged after entering the organism, and it is a serious threat to human health. Care must be taken when post-processing contaminated sheets.

Regarding whether it will be absorbed into the body, this dose of the thermometer will not cause mercury poisoning, do not need to be too nervous, pay attention, drink more water, eat more fruits and vegetables, although mercury is toxic, but only under specific volatile conditions volatilization into gas through breathing into the internal organs will cause problems.

1.First, rub the mercury fragments a little with a damp rag to remove the stain from the surface. 2.

Then, wipe the locust cloth with a wet coat, put the mercury fragments into a clean and clear glass container, wash them with warm water, and wash off the dust mixed with the mercury fragments. 3.Next, the mercury fragments are packed into a bottle with refined motor oil, and the mouth of the bottle is sealed with a rubber so that the oil does not leak out.

4.Finally, place the mercury fragments in an outdoor ventilated place to allow the oil to evaporate, and the mercury fragments will be clean sooner.

Proper way to dispose of mercury:

1) Handlers should wear hats, masks, and gloves; If the mercury droplets are large, you can roll them into a tube with slightly stiff paper, or collect them with tin foil, tape paper, and moistened cotton swabs, and pack the mercury droplets in a sealed bottle; It is worth noting that mercury is insoluble in water, so the water seal cannot effectively prevent its volatilization, and the liquid level can be covered with glycerin or 5% sodium sulfide solution to prevent the evaporation of mercury vapor.

2) When the mercury drips in the crevices or is very fine, an appropriate amount of sulfur powder can be taken to cover, so that it can produce a chemical reaction to form sulfide mercury, and it is cleaned after 3-4 hours, and the sulfide mercury is solid and cannot evaporate, so it reduces the harm to the human body; Or spray with 20% ferric chloride (10% bleach solution), at this time the mercury flowing out forms an alloy of non-toxic mercury and iron, which is placed for 1 hour and then cleaned.

3) Clean up polluted garbage, including broken glass, in an airtight container and keep it properly.

4) Rinse mercury-contaminated floors with 5%-10% ferric chloride or 10% bleach solution.

5) If mercury droplets are scattered on bedding and clothing, mercury droplets should be found as soon as possible and disposed of according to the above methods, and the contaminated bedding and clothes should be fully exposed to the sun; If you accidentally come into contact with mercury, you can rinse it with water immediately.

6) The ceiling, walls, and air of the contaminated room are fumigated with heated iodine (grams per square meter or 1 gram per cubic meter), or dispersed on the ground with grams of iodine per cubic meter for 8-12 hours, and the doors and windows are sealed at the same time, and the indoor personnel withdraw.

7) After the treatment, it should be ventilated before entering to reduce the inhalation of residual mercury vapor into the limbs. For **, the mercury shall be provided to the unit with disposal capacity for disposal.