Are Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs Dangerous?
Are Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs Dangerous?Compact fluorescent lightbulbs contain a minuscule amount of mercury, and you can't safely ignore potential contact with itPRECISELY TRUE: CFLs contain mercury, a potentially dangerous element that escapes from cracked CFLs into the immediate surroundings, and therefore the breakage of a CFL bulb should be managed by carefully removing the broken bulb and it is contents from a home.
WHAT'S FALSE: The amount of mercury found in one CFL bulb poses a grave danger to a home's inhabitants, and the mercury dispersed by one broken CFL bulb needs to be dealt with only by an environmental clean-up crew.
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