[basil]

I was thinking the same thing. As kids, we always seemed to have a supply of mercury to play with. We would use it to shine up dimes and quarters, drip it around on a surface, and then play a game to bring all the litttle balls back together.

After all this exposure to mercury 50 or 60 years ago, I don't seem to be suffering any ill side effects.

[mad_as_he$$]

I venture to guess that all you wrote looks ok to you? / jk

[cynwoody]

After all this exposure to mercury 50 or 60 years ago, I don't seem to be suffering any ill side effects.

Some compounds of mercury are much more dangerous than the metal. E.g., there was the case of the Dartmouth chemist, a specialist in toxic metals, who died from a drop of dimethylmercury that seeped through her glove.

[Old Student]

“I was thinking the same thing. As kids, we always seemed to have a supply of mercury to play with. We would use it to shine up dimes and quarters, drip it around on a surface, and then play a game to bring all the litttle balls back together.
After all this exposure to mercury 50 or 60 years ago, I don’t seem to be suffering any ill side effects.”

Mercury is also one of the major ingredients in dental amalgam, used to fill cavities in teeth. I’ve got a mouth full of it.

I can’t say I’m not experiencing any ill side effects from it, but after all the causes I’ve given my body to have ill side effects (including my own little bottle of mercury) and besides the mercury in my fillings, I can’t really blame anything in particular. To live is to take risks, and one of these days, those risks are going to catch up with us. I like the fact that I’ve reduced my electric bills enough that I can still afford to have lights in my house, and as for the “we’re all gonna die” crowd, that would be true in any event, anyway. Life is tough, then you die. BFD.