From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
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cells were my primary source of mercury when I
was a kidI used to scrounge =
Did they contain elemental mercury? Or did you find soem way to extract
it from the compounds?
It was easily removed. It was elemental mercury in what I think was
some kind of manganese oxide or something. I'd just crush it in water
and slosh it atound. Soon a ball of mercury would collect. I'd then
push it around on a paper towel until it was nice and shiny. Then
into the jar I kept it in.
I must have had a couple pounds of it at one time. I've no idea
what happened to it.
Dwight