[AFPhys]

Strela: I tasted it, too... as has been pointed out by several, it is in fillings!

Batrachian: You really should not be afraid to touch it. Just don't eat mercury citrate, acetate, etc... or other organic compounds, and you will be just fine. --- feel free to wash your hands when you're done with it, too... and if you drop it from a great height and it becomes many many little globs, air the place out- but you can't get much into the air by just exposing a big blob of it to air - the vapor pressure is very low (not much will get into air easily)

GOPcapitalist: you CAN drink the stuff without much chance of harm, as I recall... I think it is extremely inert, and very little would be absorbed by your body --- but, I have to admit that I would draw the line here. You are right, though... we have the death of common sense.

[palmer]

I had a test tube full as a kid. After all my experiments I had half a test tube and my hands were stained black.