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Hey /sci/, I played with mercury bear handed the other day. I didn't know it was mercury at the time. Should I go to the doctor? I feel fine btw.

>> No.5192205

ur dead lindsay

>> No.5192234

As long as you didn't inhale, snort, or eat any of it, you'll be fine.

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5192298

>bear handed

>> No.5192459

eugh, misconceptions about mercury:

Direct ingestion does not cause instant death, cases of scientists injecting mercury into the heart did not cause mercury poisoning, but an anneurism. Eating it was common in the 1880s i think, and they didnt die as a result of it.

Long term absorption through direct contact, and i mean every day for 20 years, will cause poisoning through heavy metals entering through the dermis into the underlying capillaries.

The most dangerous form of mercury is vapors formed by contact with UV light, easily done by sunlight or a blacklight/UV lamp, these are inhaled and absorbed into the bloodstream deposited on the surface of the meninges surrounding the brain.

Educate yourself

>> No.5192477

>>5192459
How much mercury would be necessary to poison somebody?
Say you drop a thermometer, is that dangerous? How about low-energy light bulbs?

>> No.5192503

>>5192477
Vaporize a gram, deliver it through a rebreathing oxygen mask, you'll pretty much ruin a person from tremors/insomnia to polyneuropathy and cognitive impairment.

>> No.5192527

>>5192459
This. My chem prof. went on about how when he was in high school (30 years ago maybe) the teachers would hand out mercury to the class and everyone would play with it.

Nobody knew any better because it takes decades to develop any serious symptoms from just touching the stuff. Eventually enough data came out to show how bad it is that mercury is rarely seen outside labs.

>> No.5192530

>>5192298

I see what you did there.

>> No.5192537

>>5192199
>Mercury
You should be fine, OP. But don't eat any Tuna or the heavy metals will combine and you will dead

>> No.5192576

>>5192537
...Wat??