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I actually have a room of my house I don't go in because a cfl broke there a year ago.

When I read how to clean it up it sounded so scary I now stear clear of the whole room :-(

Even if you'd have spilled all of the mercury on the carpet (and most of it will possibly have stuck on the inside of the bulb and been disposed of with the shards), it will have evaporated (and hence, left the room in gaseous phase) a long time ago.

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dsr/research/mercury-bulbs.pdf

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