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Sep 18, 2021, 09:51 PM
Altair

Solid mercury melting in water - GIF

Solid mercury melting in water.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...240#post121457
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...288#post150284
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...093#post187771
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...538#post170195
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...250#post150146
Sep 18, 2021, 10:09 PM
Frank S

When we were kids long before we learned we were supposed to be afraid of handling mercury we used to coat pennies with it
Sep 20, 2021, 05:20 PM
TrickieDickie

me too Frank and we are still here
Sep 21, 2021, 05:41 AM
Hoosiersmoker

My mom broke an old mercury thermometer while shaking it down. She told me to get her purse and took out several dimes, scooped up the mercury on her finger and rubbed it on the dimes. I've never seen shinier dimes in my life!
Sep 21, 2021, 08:18 AM
bob_3000

Our dentist neighbor used to bring it home for his kids and us to play with for hours on end end end end....
Sep 22, 2021, 10:13 AM
mwmkravchenko

As long as you don't eat it, or get it onto cuts you are pretty safe. Played with it to.
Sep 22, 2021, 12:51 PM
Hoosiersmoker

Mercury vapor is the real threat, inhalation and absorption into the system causing mercury poisoning and potentially death in high enough concentrations. If mercury isn't cleaned up quickly it starts to evaporate into small particles in the air making it easy to inhale. Broken fluorescent lamps can cause airborne mercury vapor too.
Sep 22, 2021, 02:45 PM
mwmkravchenko

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hoosiersmoker

Mercury vapor is the real threat, inhalation and absorption into the system causing mercury poisoning and potentially death in high enough concentrations. If mercury isn't cleaned up quickly it starts to evaporate into small particles in the air making it easy to inhale. Broken fluorescent lamps can cause airborne mercury vapor too.

True. I forgot about that. Nothing but fun and games with some things. But so many variables including temperature, length of exposure. Ventilation. It's a miracle we survive all the stupid things we do as kids.
Sep 22, 2021, 03:54 PM
TrickieDickie

and fiddling with lead as a kid
Sep 22, 2021, 05:51 PM
NortonDommi

The result is that all you guys still have immune systems that are 18, 8 foot and bulletproof.
Sep 22, 2021, 05:55 PM
mwmkravchenko

Quote:

Originally Posted by NortonDommi

The result is that all you guys still have immune systems that are 18, 8 foot and bulletproof.

Not quite. But not dead yet!
Sep 22, 2021, 09:10 PM
TrickieDickie

I thought it was because of my parents, not so much genetics, because they had little extra money to spend on medical needs. It had to be serious to warrant going to see a doctor. The every day scraps, bruises, sniffles, cold/flu and aches n pains, we learned not to even bring it up. Its not that they didn't care. Because of experiencing or exposure to mishaps and to many of natures microbes we developed a good immune system. That is my theory.
Sep 24, 2021, 04:05 PM
nova_robotics

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hoosiersmoker

Mercury vapor is the real threat, inhalation and absorption into the system causing mercury poisoning and potentially death in high enough concentrations. If mercury isn't cleaned up quickly it starts to evaporate into small particles in the air making it easy to inhale. Broken fluorescent lamps can cause airborne mercury vapor too.

Yup. This is what mercury looks like through an ultraviolet camera when exposed to the air:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui68zl1BYeg