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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv
Didn't you also make pennies look like dimes by rubbing mercury onto them with your fingers? Where did we get that mercury? How did we ever make it this far? All of us who touched, inhaled, ate, & absorbed all those things shouldn't be here. Maybe the fish will have it even worse.
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Someone correct me if I am wrong. But I understand that the danger of pure metallic mercury is inhalation of elementary mercury vapors. And to be damaging to you health the mercury vapor inhalation has to be over an extended amount of time. That is why it is less dangerous to handle metallic mercury for a relatively short time. It is quite a different story if you ingest mercury as part of another chemical compound as when you eat ocean fish.