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<p>[QUOTE="User 67, post: 18438, member: 67"]Some folks lack even a smidgen of science (many tea baggers for instance). For them, shopping for light bulbs shouldn't have to be a science test, no matter how simple.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fluorescent light bulbs are filled with a gas containing low-pressure mercury vapor. (I just looked that up) Many people don't know the difference between incandescent, halogen or fluorescent, but they may have read where one of them often contains mercury. It is prudent of Slyvania to remind the science ignorant consumer who is looking for a "mercury free" (non fluorescent) bulb, that halogen bulbs are the "mercury free" ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="User 67, post: 18438, member: 67"]Some folks lack even a smidgen of science (many tea baggers for instance). For them, shopping for light bulbs shouldn't have to be a science test, no matter how simple. Fluorescent light bulbs are filled with a gas containing low-pressure mercury vapor. (I just looked that up) Many people don't know the difference between incandescent, halogen or fluorescent, but they may have read where one of them often contains mercury. It is prudent of Slyvania to remind the science ignorant consumer who is looking for a "mercury free" (non fluorescent) bulb, that halogen bulbs are the "mercury free" ones.[/QUOTE]
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