Re: [ATM] Re: Mercury Mirror

[Dave Smith <smithersscope@yahoo.com>]

...and if you thought silicosis/glass dust was bad,
how about mercury poisoning from the fumes. I
understand they have to use gasmasks until the surface
of the liquid mercury hazes/oxidizes over.
Yowza!
dave
--- Daniel Reinders <danreind@shaw.ca> wrote:

> I missed most of these posts on this thread, so I'm
> not sure if this was
> meant to be ironic or not, but just in case there
> actually is a group here
> in Vancouver that is developing a rather big
> spinning mercury mirror
> observatory
> 
>
http://www.govertschilling.nl/artikelen/science/030314_sc.htm
> 
> A good solution, if you don't mind only being able
> to look straight up.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dan Reinders
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Schwartz" <richas@earthlink.net>
> To: <artbianconi@blast.net>; <atm@atmlist.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [ATM] Metallic Mirrors Vol 9, Issue 20
> 
> 
  None
> of
> > that spinning stuff is in any of the books from
> those times.  Nah.... it
> > can't work.
> >
> > . . . Richard
> >
> 
> 
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