I remember lead soldiers. My brothers had them.
My main concern is that it’s a heavy metal. At the place I retired from, we used mercury for 30 years before changing to lead. While using mercury, we had to take a pee test every 3-6 months to check for mercury poisoning. A lot of people had it. I don’t want to be poisoned by either one.
I am following the body-double issues with Brandon, and I’m not convinced either way, however, the person addressing NATO right now has attached earlobes and brown eyes. The supposed ‘real’ Brandon supposedly has unattached earlobes and blue eyes. Thoughts?
Ahhh, mercury is another one. The Liquid Metal. If you go back 30 or 40 years, every house had a thermostat for the furnace, and inside a little glass capsule was a mercury switch. Why mercury? it was a great conductor and didn’t corrode, made great electrical material.
The little switch was basically a bubble of glass with 2 metal electrodes sticking into one end of it. When the switch was tilted one way, the mercury would flow to that end of the bubble and make electrical contact thus turning on the furnace. When the house reached the right set temperature, the switch would tilt the other way and the mercury would flow to the other end, away from the contacts.
The mercury switch lasted forever. Like things used to be made - to last and last.
We also had a thermometer when I was a kid that had mercury in it. Not even red - silver. And it was glass too. LOL - imagine people sticking mercury in their mouth.
Lead and mercury were suspected troublemakers for a long time before being "scientifically discovered." Things like pointer's rot are lesser known (though fewer people nowadays are likely to be aware of why the Mad Hatter was "mad"), but similar in that mankind eventually figured out that long exposure to something or other would hit a critical point in a human being and kill them.
Lead and mercury are useful materials that bite us in the butt if we aren't careful with them.