Metallic mercury is a hell of a lot less dangerous than the EPA and the CDC pretend.
I read an article about five years ago that backs up your statement.
A local public works sent a camera down their sewer pipes and found several pools of mercury in the pipes. The amount was "several pounds." No one knew how the mercury got there, but it was mentioned that it was not the dangerous kind, but was being removed via suction.
#13. And Freddy Mecury wasn’t dangerous at all.
If you don’t love “A Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, then you are a worse than a “college snowflake” at a Milo speech.
I dig & pan for gold as a hobby up at Lynx creek, in Prescott. Have found mercury covered gold and even raw mercury at times... People eat the fish in the lake a mile downstream with no warnings whatsoever.
IIRC, we were playing with the stuff in lab.
Ingested (as opposed to aspirated) mercury is not very toxic. Mercury compounds are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning
The FBI may have detected emails or social media chatter where the budding Copernicuses of Islamic extraction working at the lab discussed stealing a truck load of the stuff and dumping it into Lake Meade, or other nefarious schemes.
Agreed. I’m still wondering how one “weaponizes” it (per article mention, above).
The only way I know of weaponizing Hg is to convert it to Methyl Mercury. An energy intense and expensive conversion.