Comment on brilliant as silver

nieceandtows@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Both my parents have told me playing with mercury like this was pretty common when they were kids. One’s still alive. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My aunt even drank some and nothing happened.

    Metallic mercury should be fine. Not the fumes though.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was commonly used as medicine for quite some time.

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    • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It has such low bioavailability…

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