“If you can avoid getting poisoned.”
We used to play with mercury some 65 years ago.
Yeah, a broken thermometer produced some fun mercury balls. How can I be alive today?
My daddy had a bottle of mercury in the console of his 442 Oldsmobile when I was a kid and I used to get it out and play with it. My son found that same bottle in Daddy’s garage and I have it now. I always wondered what he did with it. He was a machinist.
Yes, indeed.
It takes a lot of exposure to metallic mercury for significant mercury poisoning. But, it is cumulative...
I remember that! When someone broke a thermometer every kid around drooped to the floor and tried to pick up the mercury. Press a glob and it broke up into dozens of smaller globs.
Yup, lots of it. My dad used to work on the Rock Island Railroad and he’d bring it home in little bottles for us to play with... On the dinner table usually. He just told us not to let it get in our eyes or mouth. Never a problem.