[steve-b]

Let me guess -- you're using the junk science assumption that mercury spreads evenly over a large area rather than the real world assumption that it stays in a few large droplets.

[general_re]

Let me guess -- you're using the junk science assumption that mercury spreads evenly over a large area rather than the real world assumption that it stays in a few large droplets.

Both methyl mercury and dimethyl mercury are fairly readily water-soluble, about 1 gram per liter for dimethyl mercury, IIRC. It will disperse, and it will contaminate fish and other animals.

[Calvin Locke]

Did you ever see the show on that Spanish Galleon that still had recoverable mercury? The divers "spoon-fed" what I
remember as an 80cu/ft tank. They could not lift it back to the ship.

So "puddles" of mercury stayed in place after 3-4-500 years, in a very unkind environment.

Can't remember what was recovered v. what they suspected from the ship's manifest.