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Mercury and mercury compounds are widely used in electrical engineering in the production of different gas-discharge instruments (mercury lamps, mercury valves, indicators), converters, commutators (switches, relay, etc.), photoresistors, chemical current sources (especially, dry galvanic cells), gas-filled thyratrons and triodes, semiconducting materials, etc. Production of luminescent lamps is of special importance, because in this case mercury is a constituent part of consumer goods. It has been suggested that the main source of the highly toxic mercury pollution in Russia is luminescent lamps (Avrukh 1994).
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Yanin, E.P., Moskalenko, N.N. (1999). Monitoring and Assessment of Mercury Pollution in the Vicinity of Electrical Engineering Plants in the CIS. In: Ebinghaus, R., Turner, R.R., de Lacerda, L.D., Vasiliev, O., Salomons, W. (eds) Mercury Contaminated Sites. Environmental Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03754-6_11
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