..it takes some skill to mix properly.
Now, this is what I always thought about the name quicksilver...
Ode
The quick and the dead
An old term for the element mercury (Hg), quicksilver, comes from the fact that mercury flows, as though it were alive. In fact, "alive" is the original meaning of quick. The quick and the dead did not refer to gunslingers in the Old American West, but instead refers to "the living and the dead" as in the Bible, Acts 10:42. The current meaning of quick, "rapid", did not emerge until the 13th century. The word itself is descended via Old English cuic (cuicbeam means "aspen" in Old English, i.e., "living tree" (because of the manner in which its leaves quiver)) from prehistoric German *kwikwaz (which is also the source of Swedish kvick "rapid"). This comes ultimately from the Indo-European base *gwej-, which begat Latin vivus "live" (source of English vivid), Greek bios "life" (source of English biology), Welsh byw "alive", Russian zhivoj "alive", etc.
Some other words still in use today which carry the original meaning of quick include quicklime, literally "living lime", quicksand "living sand", and the noun quick ("the tender flesh under the fingernail or toenail"), referring to the living flesh beneath the dead nail.
At 11:16 AM 5/30/2005 -0400, you wrote:
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Albert Peirce wrote:<<<<
AMALGAMS, on the other hand, (Fillings to you folks from Rio Linda), consist of precisely measured finely divided (ground up) silver powder, and a correctly proportioned amount of liquid mercury to allow total molecular(?) amalgamation so there is no leakage of mercury and no release of finely ground silver sand. These are mixed, pressed, expressed, and then packed into your tooth and allowed to cure for 24 hours. So a silver FILLING contains mercury in an unobtainable form and is safe.
That is what the ADA would like you to believe, but it is totally untrue. Most but not all the mercury gets bound, some will and does leak out. That is why the word quack, which stood for quacksilver (German for quicksilver) was originally coined and applied to dentists that used this toxin in their patient's mouths.
If silver amalgam is so safe, then why is it rated as extremely toxic by the EPA and has to be handled as toxic waste?
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