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Occupations | Tends equipment that recovers and reconditions mercury used in electrolytic cells: Sweeps, shovels, and dumps mercury-bearing material onto vibrating screen that separates mercury. Flushes screen with water, using hose, and drains off water into settling tank, forming sludge. Ladles contaminated mercury and sludge into reclaiming kettle and turns valves to admit acid and steam to separate foreign matter from mercury. Drains mercury into flask. May break used cell anodes to salvage porcelain insulators and copper posts, using hammer. May tend concentrating table to remove mercury residue from scrap material for recovery. May weigh flasks of recovered mercury for inventory records. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 45 52 43 55 52 59 52 45 43 4F 56 45 52 45 52 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000101 01010010 01000011 01010101 01010010 01011001 00100000 01010010 01000101 01000011 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M E R C U R Y   R E C O V E R E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0045 0052 0043 0055 0052 0059 0052 0045 0043 004F 0056 0045 0052 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)473952375552592523937495639523952 |
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