[sdiy] DONT TOUCH

[GothGeek Sysadmin]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 06:08:03PM -0600, studio271 wrote:
> When I first thought about what happens when mercury hits the 
> ground, I thought in terms of it being the same as a water spill; 
> everything stays together, very little splatter. However, when 
> mercury spills, it instantly breaks into thousands of little round 
> pellets about .2mm in diameter. Whats worse is that they then 
> proceed to cover the entire area of the surface you happened to 
> drop the stuff on. Very big problem. That's definitely why those 
> switches are encased in VERY thick glass (plastic won't offer good 
> leak protection for the joints to the electrodes, I think).

To think, when I was a kid we had a HUGE jar of mercury. I used to pour
little drops of it on the garage floor and whap it with a hammer.  Great fun!

Maybe this explains the addiction to BBDs...

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