Posted on 03/09/2005 6:28:56 PM PST by Coleus
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Give me a break. This article lost all credibility by the third sentence.
Your large lake may be my little pond. How big is big? What constitutes a "drop?"
Well if I had money
Tell you what Id do
Id go downtown and buy a mercury or two
Crazy bout a mercury
Lord Im crazy bout a mercury
Im gonna buy me a mercury
And cruise it up and down the road
Well the girl I love
I stole her from a friend
He got lucky, stole her back again
She heard he had a mercury
Lord shes crazy bout a mercury
Im gonna buy me a mercury
And cruise it up and down the road
Well hey now mama
You look so fine
Ridin round in your mercury 49
Crazy bout a mercury
Lord Im crazy bout a mercury
Im gonna buy me a mercury
And cruise it up and down the road
Well my baby went out
She didnt stay long
Bought herself a mercury, come a cruisin home
Shes crazy bout a mercury
Yeah shes crazy bout a mercury
And cruise it up and down the road
Well if I had money
I tell you what Id do
Id go downtown and buy me a mercury or two
Crazy bout a mercury
Im gonna buy me a mercury
And cruise it up and down the road
Far as I know, it didn't kill any of us, although I certainly wouldn't do it again.
Re:liquid mercury vaporizes at room temperature, and when you inhale the vapor it moves right from the lungs to the bloodstream to the brain.
Seriously, I'd like to know.
Is this for real, or just another "global warming"?
Because I remember, in high school chemistry class, we used to play with the mercury, like, well, silly putty and as far as I know, we're all still around and of reasonably sound mind.
That's what so blows me away if a kid drops a thermometer in a school, they clear the place out and call hazmet.
Just curious, if someone out there actually knows, I'd like to.
Mercury is a naturally-occurring element. Somehow the ecosystem survived that fact before we started mining it.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Give me a break. This article lost all credibility by the third sentence.
No kidding. It wasn't that uncommon for kids 40 or 50 years ago to play with mercury like it was a slinkey.
Mercury Vapor is very toxic, but the rest of this is pure scare stories from the envirowhackos who have gotten mercury leverl set at preposterously low levels with no statistical proof of it's harmfulness at reasonable low levels.
So9
What a pant load. Back in college (when I was younger and a bit more foolhardy) I dipped my hand completely into a very large beaker of mercury just to see how my hand felt to be encased completely in metal. LOL!
Just about everyone I knew when I was a kid used to play with mercury from broken thermometers.
"I remember when I was in grade school, every so often a kid would bring in some mercury from a thermometer. We would play with it (it is fascinating) and try coating a penny to make it look like a dime."
We did the same thing in the forties!
I seem to remember stirring drops of mercury around and around in a glass dish in chemistry class at school, with my finger. You could make the stuff shiver into tiny little globular pieces and then push them together again into one large piece. I haven't dropped dead yet.
I also coated some pennies with it and took them home in my pocket.
There are literally millions of old cameras which will not operate properly because their meters required mercury cells to operate properly.
There are ways to get around it but most are too expensive to fool with.
Yup!
I still have a "hunk" of Cinnabar in my mineral collection. :-)
That would explain a lot :o)
We all played with the mercury when a thermometer broke.
My sister, aunt and cousin........... we all played with that stuff.
Yikes!
There are compounds of mercury that can do this, but it's not most of them, and it certainly isn't quicksilver...
I always used to tell people if their data is good enough, exagerating about it would only make people doubt the good data...and this is a prime example. I basically stopped reading at this point.
ROFL!
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