Before a spectrometer can do any useful work, it needs to be calibrated to identify wavelengths correctly. This is usually done by detecting several characteristic peaks or dips in a well-known ...

Olga González, a gemologist and communications strategist, examines the urgent global challenge of mercury pollution in ...

We evaluated the color vision of 24 subjects (41.6 ± 6.5 years; 6 females) who worked in fluorescent lamp industries. They had been occupationally exposed to mercury vapor (10.6 ± 5.2 years) and had ...

The Glen Cove School District has removed all gym flooring in the middle and high schools found to contain and leak mercury vapor, with the high school’s auxiliary gym testing at nearly four times the ...

Winston-Salem and Duke Energy are expected to begin discussion soon on replacing the city’s 25,000 remaining traditional streetlights with high-efficiency LED bulbs. The benefits of such a swap are ...

The Glen Cove High School auxiliary gym floor is being replaced after testing found mercury vapor levels nearly four times the limit allowed by the state, according to district officials. Test results ...

Schools in the Long Island town of Glen Cove are replacing gymnasium floors following this month's startling discovery of mercury vapors emanating from old rubberized flooring. Now, some parents of ...

This work deals with on line speciation of organic Hg (Hg org) and inorganic Hg (Hg inorg) in urban landfill leachate. Chlorocomplexes of Hg inorg are produced in HCl medium and retained on an anion ...

Glen Cove High School has closed its auxiliary gym after tests found its floor leaking mercury vapor at concentrations nearly four times the legal limit. In an announcement posted on Aug. 1, Glen Cove ...

Humans have inadvertently filled their towns and cities with outdoor lighting that generates a lot more light pollution. This costs communities their starry nighttime views. It also wastes electricity ...