Where do you get Mercury?

[RosalieM]

Goodmorning all! Hope you had a good weekend. Mine was busy as Tamworth is hosting the State Firefighting Championships

I'm just wondering if anyone knows what companies sell mercury. I can only find it through Serrata and am hoping to do some price comparisons before we get some more.
Thanks,
Rosalie

[smiley]

What for ???

Surely we're not allowed Mercury these days!

[RosalieM]

We use it in Yr 12 physics for a demonstration of something.

[Labbie]

I believe but can not find anything to back this up, Mercury in schools is very limited, and you can use up what you have, I believe purchasing more is out of the question. But that may only be for DET schools. You may need to check. Mercury can only be used by a Science teacher and us labs, NO ONE ELSE AT ALL. Just can not think what experiment the teacher would do???????????????

[RosalieM]

It is a teacher demonstration of Faraday's elecromagnetic induction I think.

[Lis]

Hi Rosalie
Science Supply Australia have mercury metal LR chem supply 500g $88, and Mercury metal Labchem Ajax 500g $83.70,
cheers
Lisa

[lizzieb]

Might be a good idea if you print out both the MSDS and the CSIS entry on Mercury for the teacher to read to the class before the dem....

[Ocean Breeze]

We are trying to get rid of some mercury.. certainly not add to our stockpile!

[sunray18]

When I worked in Research at Newcastle Uni - we had lots of the stuff.. schools used to send it to us to clean.... why not see if any Uni close to you has a little to let you have??