Lavander Blue……

[Kristen]

Hoofer wrote:

Dragon87 wrote:

Mercury gas lights?? Mercury likes to be a liquid at our temperatures/pressures. Or is it a gas that has mercury in it, but isn’t necessarily elemental mercury? I think there’s a popular scent that contains mercury ions but they don’t dissociate in the body so safe.

Stupid interest in Chemistry kicking in…

There possibly is a popular scent that contains mercury ions? That has to be about as brilliant as MSG in foods as a flavor enhancer, preservative. 😕

I won’t pretend to know how the mercury works. It sounds like it is a gas that has mercury in it. What they are, the bulbs, are a Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) that the manufacturer states are “super low mercury CFL’s.”

The benefits are, they use less electricity, a 13 Watt CFL sufficiently replaces a normal 60 Watt filament bulb. They put out barely any heat while in use and will last much longer than your standard filament bulb.

The downsides are, they are a very bright, white light spectrum (say that 10 times real fast :wink:), which is your typical spectrum of light for a flourescent bulb of any design, but these are more white than I have ever dealt with. So it does take some getting used to for the eyes, since everything looks so different in the house.

Also, still looks ghastly in this spectrum of white. Then there’s the nuisance bugs that swarm to the white spectrum if I use it outside in a portable form. Add to that, I have no idea how to recycle them. This area is not very big on being environmentally aware/friendly, which is a tangent left for another day. 😎

~Hoofer

Correction. It wasn’t a scent. But there was a certain vaccine that contained ethylmercury. I believe that the amount allowed in vaccines is lowered now.

Also, mercury vapour (which generally comes from burning of fossil feuls, waste incineration, and volcanoes) is also present in dental amalgrams, which can be up to 50% inorganic mercury. They are also called silver dental fillings. Now ceramic is generally used for fillings, but people my age or older may still have the amalgrams.

So no flowers. Maybe the name sounded like a flower. :shrug: http://www.mcs-america.org/february2007.pdf is where I looked up the info, but since I don’t have the proper access, I could not verify against their sources, so it is open to possible interpretation.

[Nightcrow]

Well, in that case, let me add my two-cents as well! 🙂

I absolutely *love* the color, I just wish the eyes were more contrasting — straw or light yellow, say, or even red, maybe.

More monochrome-y dragons, please!

Melody wrote:

This Lavender blue dragon is nice but he has the monotone problem = a little too much of one color I think, but he is a test paint after all, so whether you like him or not is what I am testing

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