These tips will help you avoid trouble, if you crashed mercury thermometer.
Despite the fact that now in the sale is a lot of different thermometers, for example, electronic, infrared, people still prefer it to mercury. Crashed a thermometer - a problem that even in adults causes panic. Many have no idea what to do to avoid harm. So we decided to tell you about the important steps that you need to make when broken thermometer.
You broke a thermometer?
- It is necessary to bring all of the room where the thermometer has broken, including the animals.
- If you have an air conditioner, it is recommended to decrease the room temperature to 16-18 degrees.
- Close the door to the room and open the windows.
- Now put on rubber gloves and gauze mask.
- Examine yourselves, to make sure that no mercury balls on your clothes.
- Take the glass jar with a lid, and pour into a container the water.
- Collect the mercury bulbs may be by syringe, syringe or paper kulechka, place them in a jar of water. When everything is assembled, close the lid tightly.
- If the floor has a broken glass, it can be cleaned with a damp cloth or spongiole of foam.
- Wash the floor with a chlorinated agent twice. To 1 liter of water need to 1 tablespoon bleach. All month wash the floor in the room with a solution of 2 times a week.
- Container with mercury should be attributed to a specific institution. These places are called - demercurisation centers, or may include mercury in the sanitary and epidemiological station. If you do not have access to a such an institution, mercury dig far into the forest deep in the ground.
If you are afraid to do anything when the thermometer has broken, call the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Employees hold the desired cleaning and processing of mercury vapor.
