What sort of chemicals do monitors contain? Can they leak? would they work if they were leaking? Just curious since I was thinking about a news segment I saw a while back.
I'm pretty sure it's leaded glass, but that's not in a gas form. As for leakage, it's a vacum tube so I don't think there's anything in there as far as gases go. But watch out for the smoke from a burning capacator, that's pretty noxious.