Comment on brilliant as silver

• DrRatso@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its also harmless, generally, when ingested as the gastrointestinal absorption of elemental mercury is negligible. It is inhalation that is most concerning with elemental mercury.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Except eating paint chips with lead made a lot of kids dumb. Lead based paint held up awesome, but it was banned due to injection. Not inhalation. Even now, 40+ years later it’s still the leading cause of lead poisoning in children.

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    • DrRatso@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean… we’re talking about mercury here, not lead.

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      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, fuck me. Lol. I commented last night and then responded back today and in between my mind totally flipped to thinking it was about lead.

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