This is a great article. Several years ago I had a mercury thermometer break in our bedroom. We had no idea how to clean it up, so we called poison control. They also new very little and did not even advise us to ventilate the room. We had no idea it was airborn, but we threw out the sheets that it had spilled on. The mercury also bonded to both of our wedding rings and we were told they were ruined and would need to be replaced. We ended up finding a jeweler that offered to somehow melt the mercury out of the gold. We no longer have mercury thermometers in our house. I wish I had this article back then. It sounds like there is a lot more awareness out there than there was when we had our incident, which is great.