Monitor safety question

[sol]

I had an old cabinet with a monitor that was badly scratched at the front. The monitor had been discharged some time ago.
I was disposing of monitor and taking it out of the cabinet when .....  at the rear I think near where the guns are the monitor pulled away from somewhere it was connected and there was a whole with a series of pins sticking out and gas of some sort came out of this hole while I was holding the monitor.

Could this hurt me breathing it?

[grantspain]

no,its air going into the tube

[sol]

Good - thanks

[qrz]

personally, i try to avoid inhalation when disposing of a crt   

fyi, crt phosphors are :

color               compounds                                                                               type designation
                                                           
red       =    yttrium oxide-sulfate activated with europium                                     P22R
green   =    zinc sulfide and copper                                                                         P22G
blue      =    zinc sulfide silver                                                                                  P22B

in b/w crts  the phosphor is a mix of zinc cadmium sulfide and zinc sulfide silver   P4


qrz