[lotus]

When I was a kid, one of my older brothers first introduced me to mercury. It was fun to play with, almost magical....Kids in school, labs etc..., played with it.

The dentists put it in our teeth fillings.....

I think where the problem lies is we elect ignorant people who can't hold down real jobs.

Might as well use their logic and ban copper, after all it's poisonous too. Can kill rather quickly....that is the proper Compound of copper

Some elements are harmless but their compounds deadly. Maybe they need to tell all us older people with mercury in our teeth we're dead as of years ago.

Mercury wont even dissolvwe in water.....

[Frohickey]

Might as well use their logic and ban copper, after all it's poisonous too. Can kill rather quickly....that is the proper Compound of copper

Might as well ban dihydrogen oxide (water). Don't you know that so many people and kids die from too much water?

Do it for the chill-ren!!!!

[Old Professer]

Mercury wont even dissolvwe in water.....

According to the industry standard, Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, mercury is soluble only in nitric acid (HNO₃.)