[sdiy] DONT TOUCH

[Paul Perry]

>> Mercury is not easily assimilated into the human body through the skin
>> at all... and it is not very water soluable. If you clean it up well
>> forget the
>> superfund. If your dog or child likes to lick the floor.. that's
>> different.
....Mercury (metallic) used to be used as a laxitive!(must have felt kinda
funny going through). This was back in 1700 or so.
>> 

>> Breathing the mercury oxides would be bad news. This is what killed a
>> lot of photographic pioneers.
....The mercury that killed photographic pioneers was the mercury vapour
used to develop degaurotypes.
>> 
>> We all (those maybe 45+ years old) played with liquid mercury as kids
....yeah, I remember rubbing it onto aluminum, where it forms an alloy with
the surface & the aluminum reacts with oxygen to give feathery aluminum oxide.

All this is well OT of course.
There is a very civilised group, AHOT, specifically designed for people on
AH who wnat to talk OT to AH members.
I am sure SDIY members would be welcome (hint hint).

paul perry melbourne australia