I remember as a kid in country school putting some mercury in the palm
of my hand and rubbing pennies in it to make them shiny and look like
dimes. Back then it was just considered a fun liquid metal to play with.
Dennis.
Rowena wrote:
I think research has shown that those who are most susceptible to
mercury
poisoning are those who were exposed to it at a younger age. I
found a
quantity of it when I was a teenager, from a deceased doctor's
bloodpressure
device. I had about a cup full of it, and played with it for a
long time,
not knowing it could go right through my skin. Yikes!!
Yikes indeed! You have reminded me that I played with the mercury
out of a broken thermometer when I was little. I probably touched
it to see it dissipate into little globules, though my mother did
tell me how dangerous mercury was.
Rowena
