User talk:Ctrainor

help me

Ok, this is my first suggestion I would like to make.

Could I please be directed to the appropriate page on how to politely, accurately make this suggestion?

I would like to suggest that a link be created between the article on Compact fluorescent lamp  under 4.4 Starting Time  and the Chemistry article on Amalgams.

The readers could benefit from the knowledge that the mercury in CFL's could come from a manufacturing process that uses liquids or from an amalgam as explained on Nvision site

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_%28chemistry%29

3. http://www.nvisioncfl.com/mercury.aspx#break

Thank you

Ctrainor (talk) 06:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Hello Ctrainor,
 * This kind of suggestion about the content of an article (I consider the link between two articles being “content”) must be done on the respective talk pages of the articles. You can access to them by clicking on the “discussion” button located at the top of all articles. See Help:Talk for more details. In our case: Talk:Compact fluorescent lamp and Talk:Amalgam (chemistry).


 * You can also try to do it yourself!
 * Calimo (talk) 06:50, 10 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Well the link has been made, not sure by who. I'm glad it is there.  Now I am interested in pursuing how Hg is used in CFL's.  As stated above, I believe, that readers could benefit from the knowledge that the mercury in CFL's could come from a manufacturing process that uses liquids or from an amalgam as explained on Nvision site


 * This is interesting and perhaps confusing because according to the Energy Star glossary :, the two types are either an amalgam, or mercury vapor.


 * Nvision claims on their site and I quote "Mercury can be added to the CFL in two ways. Some manufacturers use liquid mercury, which is less expensive and more difficult to accurately dose. nvision uses amalgam, a small “pill” which is a solid state form of mercury and other elements. Amalgam is much easier and more accurate to dose. Nvision is the only manufacturer using 100 percent amalgam in its CFL products."


 * I am interested in the verification of this claim, what it might mean for a consumer, how a reader could benefit from this knowledge and the confusion between liquid mercury use vs. mercury vapor use.


 * Could it be just an error, or is there another manufacturing technology out there?


 * http://www.nvisioncfl.com/mercury.aspx#break


 * http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls_glossary#mercury

Ctrainor (talk) 21:59, 18 August 2009 (UTC)