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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 5405512, member: 27832"]Well, you could bake out the mercury (OUTDOORS) -- yeah, it would go into the atmosphere, but that's not much mercury, and it would dissipate really quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or, if you want to be more responsible, go get a bag of sulfur at the hardware store, melt some in an old tin can, and roll it around to coat the sides. Then dump in the cents, and fill the can with more melted sulfur. It ought to react with the surfaces of the cents, both the copper and the mercury, and turn it into non-volatile sulfides. At that point, it ought to be pretty stable, unless it gets incinerated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 5405512, member: 27832"]Well, you could bake out the mercury (OUTDOORS) -- yeah, it would go into the atmosphere, but that's not much mercury, and it would dissipate really quickly. Or, if you want to be more responsible, go get a bag of sulfur at the hardware store, melt some in an old tin can, and roll it around to coat the sides. Then dump in the cents, and fill the can with more melted sulfur. It ought to react with the surfaces of the cents, both the copper and the mercury, and turn it into non-volatile sulfides. At that point, it ought to be pretty stable, unless it gets incinerated.[/QUOTE]
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