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Yes, all fluorescent lights, including the compact fluorescents contain some amount of Mercury. It is a necessary component to make the bulb work and is the reason fluorescent bulbs should not be broken for disposal, but should be sent through a disposal path that bring them to a responsible recycling and disposal organization. Compact fluorescent bulbs, also called energy saver light bulbs, have more mercury than the conventional long fluorescent bulbs, which have been developed in recent years to use less mercury than used to be the case.
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Is mercury used for the filament in light bulbs?
No, not in the filament. You are probably thinking of compact fluorescent light bulbs, which do contain mercury.
Are flourescent light bulbs dangerous?
Compact Flourescent Light bulbs do contain mercury and can be dangerous if broken because of this.
Why are compact fluorescent light bulbs bad?
Older CFBs contained mercury. However, today's bulbs contain little, if any, mercury. Buying today's bulbs is a good choice, as they produce the same amount of light as an incandescent bulb, but yet uses a fraction of the energy.
How many atoms of mercury are in a light bulb?
Compact fluorescent light bulbs contain mercury. (For that reason, it is important to be very careful with a broken compact fluorescent bulb, because mercury is highly toxic.) Most other kinds of light bulbs do not contain any significant amount of mercury.
Are light bulbs that contain Mercury dangerous in any way?
yes they are dangerous because mercury will melt easily
Are there gases and chemicals in a light bulb?
yes there is in the spiral energy saving light bulbs there is mercury
How do light bulbs cause global warming?
In a incandescent light bulb almost 90% of the energy taken in is being wasted as heat. only 10% is being used as visible light. this means that alot of energy taken in from ex sun,vind and water are not being used as it should have been. Thats why the LED bulbs are so good because they dont give out as much wasted energy
What happens when you get Mercury poisoning?
Have you heard about mercury poisoning? people in china are slowly dying of mercury poisoning. due to energy saving light bulbs! do you know what the side effects of mercury poisoning are?
What is an eco light bulb?
sometimes Compared to an incandescent light bulb, "green" ( eco? ) light bulbs are generally more efficient to manufacture and more efficient in using (less) electricity to make (more) light; and they contain or release less toxic materials during manufacture, use, and (should they fail prematurely) disposal of used bulbs. Likely examples: LED bulbs, Fluorescent bulbs (except they contain mercury).
Can a led be connected directly to a 9v battery?
LED Light Bulbs are based on light-emitting diodes; the most notable advantages of LED light bulbs over conventional light bulbs are LED light bulbs last upwards of 50,000 hours. Additionally, LED light bulbs consume very little electricity. They are also shatterproof, run cool to the touch, and contain no mercury or hazardous substances.
What is the gas used in light bulbs?
Generally, argon or krypton.Argon , neon ,Argon is sometimes used in incandescent lights.Answer:Fluorescent bulbs contain mercury vapor so do mercury vapor lights, sodium vapor lights contain sodium vapor once they are hot, "neon" lights contain neon and a number of other gases depending on the color desired.Argon or nitrogenIn incandescent light bulbs (the regular kind) contain an inert gas, probably Argon. Sometimes there is no gas at all and a vacuum protects the filament.In Florescent bulbs the tubes are filled with low pressure mercury vapor along with an inert gas such as argon, xenon, neon, or krypton.argon
Are energy saving light bulbs brighter than regular light bulbs?
Not necessarily. They can be brighter, or less bright. Both the energy saving light bulbs and the old-fasioned incandescent light bulbs come in different powers.
