when stored fluorescent light bulbs are covered with a white powdery substance, how should they be disposed?
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If the bulbs are intact, I wouldn't worry.  The powder is probably dust from something in the room.\n\nFluorescent bulbs should be taken to a household hazardous waste day.  They contain mercury (but only on the inside).\n\nMost communities accept hazardous waste either at the waste station or at specific sites a few times a year.  You can call whomever picks up your trash and recycling and ask them about hazardous waste.
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Best method if practical is to freeze it.\nIf not sealed within a steralized container.
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You should remove the batteries because even if they are not used, the chemicals in the battery can eat through the housing and damage the device.\n\nAlso, the chemicals in the batteries have a "shelf-life" where they will react slowly even if there is no electrical discharge.
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Turning off a lightbulb is easy. Simply leave it in the box. It will remain off.
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Purify it. And then have it in a closed system where nothing can get to it
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the best way is to find out when there is wast pick op, or in my area the fire stations once a week will have a truck that all u have to do is drop off you waste and they will dispose of it properly,  burning it will cause harmful toxins in the air and could even be fatal if inhaled.
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Light bulbs have little air in them so if there was a tiny crack in the bulb, only a little random pressure would be needed to cause air pressure to rush into the bulb, causing it to implode with a bang.
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don't just throw it away. There are toxic gases in it.
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You can get putty like ones from art shops that remove dark HB and pretty much destroy anything apart from the pressure on the paper. they need to be cleaned a lot but can be molded to an easy shape and are dabbed rather than rubbed which means less white flakes and little paper ripping.
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Call your city sanitary waste department.  They usually have a place you can take hazardous materials....
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get some batteries, get some wires, and a very small lightbulb and a socket. So it should look like this:\nBattery(+) ... wire ... paperclip ... lightbulb ... wire ... (-)Battery
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One that will ideally:\n1) dissolve the component that you wish to collect but not the others. Then you can do a filtration, collect the filtrate and evaporate off the solvent to get back the component that you want.\nOR\n2) dissolve all those that you don't wish to collect but not the component that you want. Then you can do a filtration and collect the component that you want as the residue.\n\nHope this helps :)
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Standard light bulbs contain a tungsten filament connected to electrical contacts inside a vacuum so that there is no (or very little oxygen).  When electricity flows through the high-resistance filament, the filament glows white hot, giving off light and heat.\n\nOther types of light bulbs (fluorescent, halogen, etc.) work a little differently.  If you want information on those, just say the word.
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Get rid of debris that retains moisture.
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use a vaccum cleaner lol
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heat the pure gas in a sealed tube in absence of air. it breaks up into its components. you've got solid yellow sulphur.
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gross!!!!!\ncall an exterminator and let them find out what they are so they can properly be disposed of!!