The evaporation of a drop of mercury

✍ Scribed by Winter, Thomas G.

• Book ID: 115458493
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 289 KB
• Volume: 71
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9505
• DOI: 10.1119/1.1568971

✦ Synopsis

The evaporative rates of two drops of mercury at room temperature are determined experimentally and theoretically. The resulting mercury vapor levels are estimated and measured, compared with the OSHA permissible exposure limit, and found to be small by comparison.