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Originally Posted by PetrolioBenzina
"Quicksilver" is mostly safe to handle. Ingesting and vapors are no good, though. I can't imagine being able to do it today in the era of the Tide Pod challenge. Chemistry classes must be boring as hell now.
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I'll agree that the dermal toxicity of metallic mercury is relative low, I was just thinking of ol @
Jordanwolf when I read this:
"Acute inhalation of liquid metallic mercury in high concentrations causes a wide variety of cognitive, personality, sensory, and motor disturbances. The most prominent symptoms include tremors (initially affecting the hands and sometimes spreading to other parts of the body), emotional lability (characterized by irritability, excessive shyness, confidence loss, and nervousness), insomnia, memory loss, neuromuscular changes (weakness, muscle atrophy, muscle twitching), headaches, polyneuropathy (paresthesia, stocking-glove sensory loss, hyperactive tendon reflexes, slowed sensory and motor nerve conduction velocities), and performance deficits in tests of cognitive function."
fer sure - I ain't no toxicologist.
humfrz