The common use of mercury is in mercury thermometers. Once the thermometer breaks down, be sure to open the window in time for ventilation. Do not touch it with your hands. Then, use cardboard to collect the mercury particles you see, put them in a closed container and hand them over to professionals for treatment. The invisible will evaporate in the air.
Mercury cannot be treated as domestic garbage, otherwise it will pollute the water source and cause harm to the body when discharged into the sewer. The symptoms of mercury poisoning are nausea, vomiting and dyspnea. If this happens, you must go to the hospital in time, otherwise it will spread in the body and cause damage to the kidneys.
Other considerations:
After the mercury thermometer was accidentally broken, the laminated glass fragments were easily removed. Liquid mercury can't be picked up when it falls to the ground. The harder you touch liquid mercury, the smaller it will become. To solve the problem of water falling on the ground, we should first open the doors and windows for natural ventilation, so that the mercury vapor evaporated into the gas can be released as soon as possible.
You can use some cardboard steel wire rope barrels to carefully find out the liquid mercury beads on the ground and put them on as much as possible. Small liquid mercury beads will become bigger when they touch each other. After collecting liquid mercury, put it in a well-sealed glass bottle and give it to technicians for dissolution.
Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-Mercury
Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-thermometer