List of products containg mercury. It's everywhere!

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Sources of Mercury

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Adhesives Agricultural chemicals Air conditioner filters Alchemy Alloys Alum hematoxylin Amalgam Anatomical preservative Antifouling paints Anti-mildew paints Antinuclear antibody buffer Antiparasitic powder Antique red Antiseptic Aqueous red mercury blister (mercuric iodide) Arsenic-calcium reagent 260 ppm Atomic shields Auto exhaust Barometers Batteries

Alkaline Nickel Cadmium Mercuric oxide

Bilge pump Bilirubin blue lamp Bleached flour Blood Bank Saline Blood gas analyzer Bronzing Bougie Tube (used in medical procedures for esphageal dilation) Bow stabilizer (archery) Bubble/trap (laboratory use) B5 Fixative Cajal's Calomel Camco Canter tubes Carbol-Fuchin Gram Stain (laboratory use) Carbol Gentian Violet Stain (laboratory use) Cardiac catherization syringe Carnoy-Lebrun fixative Catalysts Cathode tubes Caustic soda CA125 test Centifuges Cesium internal Std Clostridium difficile EIA Channing's solution Chemical reagent Child immunization shots China Chinese medicine Cinnabar Circuitry

printed circuit board mount 8/11 pin mount Mounted control

Cleaning Solvents

Ajax Powder Comet Cleaner Lysol Direct Soft Scrub Alconox Soap Derma Scrub Dove Soap Ivory Dishwashing Liquid Joy Dishwashing Liquid Murphy's Oil Soap Soft Dish soap Cidex

Coal Coal fired power plants Cold cathode lamp Colorimetric chloride analysis Commercial cleaning bleach Commercial cleaning detergent Commercial cleaning scouring powder Commercial cleaning soap Cosmetics CPK Reagent 2.7ppm Crystalloid Dairy barn manometers (tube type) DC watt hour meters (discontinued) Dental amalgams: mercury content Dental amalgam capsules Dental amalgam sewage Dental amalgam waste water Depolarizer (batteries) Developers Diffussion pump (laboratory/educational use) Dip-a-way (merbromin) aquarium systems Diptheria vaccine Disinfectant Displacement/plunger relay Drinking water (tap/well) Drugs and Vaccines: mercury content DC watt hour meters Dyes Electric relays Electric switches Electrolysis (cathode) Electronics Electron microscope Electroplating aluminum Embalming Engraving Epstein Barr Virus Buffer ESA Model 3010B Lead Analyzer Electrode Esophageal dilators Etch-a-sketch Excitatrons Exhaust fumes Explosives Eye area cosmetics up to 65 ppm Fabric softeners Feeding Tubes Felt Fertilizers Finger print powder Fish: mercury content Fixatives Flame sensor

safety valve stainless steel bulb capillary tube bellows/control device standing pilot electronic Ignition pilot

ovens ranges commercial griddle unit heaters industrial oven furnaces infrared heaters cycle pilot devices

Flooring - Gymnasium Flooring installed during the early 1970's contained a mercury catalyst and other rubber tracks and sports surfaces (3M Tartan Track). Floor waxes Flow meters Flu shots: mercury content Fluorescent lights

General purpose U-bent Circuline Compact High output Bilirubin blue Blacklight Bug zapper

FTA buffer Fuel cells Fume exhaust ventilation hoods Fungicides

Mildewcide Latex paint Outdoor fabric treatment Marine anti-fouling paint pre 1970

Furs Gas meter pressure device Gel electrophoresis General purpose lamp Germicidal lamps

Hot cathode Cold cathode Slimline

Giardia EIA Gilding Glue Gold mining Golgi's Gomori's Gram iodine stain Group A Strep ID Gun powder Gyroscopes Haemophilus vaccine Hair tonics Hardening processes Harris hematoxylin Haymen diluting fluid Headlights xenon-mercury-halide Heavy metals Hellys fixative Hepatitis vaccine Hepatitis B core (test) Hepatitis C (test) Hepatitis B (test) Hepatitis B Ag & Ab (test) Herpes EIA Buffer High intensity discharge lamps High output lamp High pressure sodium lamps Histology Histology stains Hitachi chem analyzer HIV (test) Homeopathics 17 compounds Hot cathode lamp Hydrometers Hydroxyl phenol Ignitrons Industrial Boilers Iodine stain Influenza vaccine Insecticides Intensifier in photography Inverters Jewelry (reported from Mexico) Lamps (mercury arc) Latex Paint Laxatives L A Gear "My Lil Lights" pre 1994 shoes Lead analyzer electrode Lighthouse lamp bearing Lithium (test) Lyme buffer Manometers Mascara Medical analytical instruments Medical auto analyzers Medical waste incinerators Merbromin used in plastic surgery Mercuric chloride peritoneal lavage in cancer surgery Mercurochrome Mercury ammonium chloride Mercury arc Mercury barometer Mercury bromide Mercury chloride Mercury fluoride Mercury fulminate Mercury iodide Mercury hydride Mercury nitrate Mercury oxide Mercury sulfide Mercury selenide Mercury telluride Mercury vapor ultraviolet spectral lamp Metal halide lamps Metalloid Metamorphic Metexchange reagent Methiolate Methylmercury hydroxide Miller Abbott Tubes Milton's reagent Mucolex Municipal Waste Combustors Nasal Spray Neon lamps (except red, orange, pink) Nessler's reagent Nitrogen-ammonia Nuclear coolants Ohlamacher fixative Ophthalmic products (preservative) Optic sensors Oscifactors Oscillators Paint indoors before 1990 Paint outdoors before 1991 Parasitology trichrome stain Pastes Pertussis vaccine Pesticides (food use pre 1995) Ph buffers Phanotron Pharmaceutical preservatives Phenylmercuric acetate Phenylmercuric nitrate Photoprocessing solutions Pigments

Reds Oranges Cadmium Automobile Auto parts Vinyl ABS Polycarbonate Cadmium sulfide based pigments Catalysts, urethane and vinyl Polymer curing Acetylene Production Production of vinyl from acetylene Anthraquinone production Battery electrode Battery anti-gassing

Pipes

Dental Office Laboratory Schools

Deposits at the bottom, low spots or tillage. Examine mud deposits. Cutting pipes will vaporize mercury

Plastics Plants Plumbing-piping Pharmaceuticals Phenylmercuric acetate (latex paint) Polishes Pollution Porcelain Potions Precision reagent 24ppm Pregnancy kit preservative Preservatives Printing Processed foods Progesterone Protein precipitation Protein test Pulp Pyrometers Quackery Quicksilver Quicksilver Maze (toy) Rabies vaccine Radar Radio Radiometer gas analyzer reference electrode Rectifiers Rubber flooring with mercury compounds RX ICK control (merbromin) Seed dressings Semiconductors

Mercury-cadmium telluride Infrared sensors Satellite users Photovoltaic Photoconductive-primary

Salinity Shardin fixative Shooting galleries Silvering mirrors Skin bleaching creams Slimicides Slimline lamp Sodium hydroxide Sodium/Potassium Solvents Spectral lamps, monochromatic light Sphygmomanometers Stabilur tablets Sucrose buffer preservative Sulfuric acid (commercial) Switches, relays, sensors

Displacement Plunger relays 1 to 4 poles NO NC Voltage ratings Current ratings High current High voltage Applications Resistance heating Welding Lighting Tungsten Power supply switching Resisance heating Welding Industrial process controllers Street lighting Mercury to steel contact Mercury to mercury contact Wetted reed relays wetted reed switch Telcommunications Tilt switches Pressure control Fluid level control Airflow/fan limit control Pneumatic tube communications systems Man down alarms Swimming pool alarms Safety shut off Steam irons (not one hour timer) Electric space heaters (pre 1995) Outboard motors Limit switches Automobile hood Automobile trunk Automobile vanity mirror Glove box Emergency brake lights Automatic roll bar Automatic leveling suspension Tilt security systems Wall switches Commercial popcorn poppers Film editing equipement Greenhouse Louver devices Washing machine lids (old) Chest freezer lid Remote utility meter reading device Security systems

Automobile Computer lockdowns

Alarm switch

Anti tamper device Gas meters Pay Phones

Car washes Ice fishing tip-up lights Fishing lure Lawn tractor Electric organs Fire alarm box Aircraft level sensor Defense applications Laptop screen shutoff Portable phone switch Camera still, video, film sensor Magnetically operated switches Proximity sensors G-sensors Automobile ABS 4WD sensors Air bag sensors Auto seat belt

Takata's reagent Talcom Powder Tanning Leather Tattoo pigments Telescope mirror Tetanus vaccine Thermometers

ASTM and Laboratory Cup case Tapered bulb Sling psychrometer Mason's hygrometer Oven Candy deep fry Weather Minimum/maximum Maximum registering Fever Clerget sugar test blood bank incubator water bath dairy

Thermoregulators Thermostats

gas oven pre 1970

Thimerosal in US Licensed Vaccines Thyroid antibodies buffer Thyratron Tincture of merthiolate Tissue fixatives, pathology Tissue stains Total Kjeldahl nitrogen Turbo alternators Udder wash (thimerosal) discontinued Urinalysis Stabilur tablets Vaccines: Thimerosal in US Licensed Vaccines

1:10,000 Leptospirosis bacterium, cattle, swine, dogs

Vapor lamps Vermicides Waste water treatment plant pivot bearing arm Water pollution Water treatment chemicals Weight/counterweigh in grandfather clocks Welding Wood Preservatives Wound Control (merbromin) aquarium Zenkers solution fixative

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