Group 12 element steel components. Mercury is used primarily for the manufacture of industrial chemicals or for electrical and electronic applications. It is used in some thermometers, especially ones which are used to measure high temperatures. A still increasing amount is used as gaseous mercury in fluorescent lamps, while most of the other applications are slowly phased out due to health and safety regulations, and is in some applications replaced with less toxic but considerably more expensive Galinstan alloy. Mercury and its compounds have been used in medicine, although they are much less common today than they once were, now that the toxic
Risk and Safety Statements in the course of harmonising classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals by introduction of the UN Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). The R/S statement code for fuming hydrochloric acid (37%): The corresponding English language phrases: Dashes separate the phrase numbers. They are not to be confused with range indicators. Slashes indicate fixed combinations of single phrases. More detailed hazard and safety information can be found in the material safety data sheets (MSDS) of a compound. Risk and Safety Statements Risk and Safety Statements, also known as R/S statements, R/S numbers, R/S phrases, and R/S sentences,