>>14401415
that's organic mercury, not pure mercury. organic mercury is an organic molecule containing mercury, like CH3Hg. elemental mercury in its liquid form, the one you find in thermometers for example, is barely absorbed by the body when ingested, it basically goes in and out. this doesn't mean you can't get poisoning from it, you might but it's much much less likely and not as dangerous as you'd expect. inhaling mercury vapors, elemental mercury in it's gaseous form, on the other hand will fuck you up. like i said, people used liquid mercury as laxative back then.