How much mercury to kill a dog?

[Jasandjules]

Use kitchen roll to blot up as much as possible and air the room?

Though I think the guide posted is surely a little bit OTT?

[hairykrishna]

The guide is a bit 'health and safety' for one thermometer full. Mop it up carefully, air the room and minimise contact with it and it'll be fine. Best to know the official advice though - it can be nasty stuff.

[JohnnyJones]

Ho ho ho at some of the posts, why air the room?

Does it give off vapours or something?

The dog seems fine so far, much more placid than the O/H who is ill and can't take her temperature!

I have a Demon Tweeks temp infra red zapper for the cars but she won't let me use it on her!

[BlackVanGirl]

According to this there will be far, far too little mercury in it to be a risk to dog by ingestion, clearly vapour is potentially more of a problem in theory but I can't imagine it'd be that easy to accidentally vapourise and then inhale the tiny amount of mercury on your floor, especially given that you've already cleaned up the obvious bits.

[Conian]

wombat172a said:

Conian said:

Soovy said:

The Hypno-Toad said:

10 feed dog more mercury.
20 if dog = dead then goto 40
30 goto10
40 dog dead
50 end

BASIC. Love it.

very poor, at least use a GO SUB routine

There's an old android saying, which, I believe,has particular relevance here. It goes like this: "If you don't gosub a program loop, you'll never get a subroutine."

[Doofus]

I didn't know there was so much programming humour.

I guess you had to be there really...

[Trophybloo]

BlackVanGirl said:

According to this there will be far, far too little mercury in it to be a risk to dog by ingestion, clearly vapour is potentially more of a problem in theory but I can't imagine it'd be that easy to accidentally vapourise and then inhale the tiny amount of mercury on your floor, especially given that you've already cleaned up the obvious bits.

Gawd there is SO little basic understanding of the physio/chemical properties of Mercury.
It is always vapourising when spilled there's nothing you can do to stop it doing so, there's no 'accidentally' involved. The only accident is dropping the intercoursing thermometer. Get a under tongue (for humans) rectal (for dogs) battery powered thermocouple type to avoid this type of thing in future. Best get 2 so as to avoid forgetting which was used for what. Other than dusting the spill with flowers of sulphur to convert it to mercuric sulphide there is no way to stop the mercury eventually totally evaporating (the only metal with a vapour pressure at ambient temperatures). It will take up on a DRY sponge but because of its very high surface tension kitchen towel will just spread it around.

[JohnnyJones]

I found that sweeping it into a dustpan worked, then it all collected in the bottom of the pan so I could estimate how much I'd got of it. There couldn't have been much left on the floor.

Dog still fine!

[motco]

JohnnyJones said:

I found that sweeping it into a dustpan worked, then it all collected in the bottom of the pan so I could estimate how much I'd got of it. There couldn't have been much left on the floor.

Dog still fine!

Keep him cool or he'll blow his top!