7 Sep
2004
7 Sep
'04
8:11 p.m.
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi
From what, the glass or the mercury?
I don't want to touch the mercury because I might be poisoned, and the
glass shards in it might cut me. I want to get the glass out of it so I
can drink it without worrying about my throat getting cut up in the
process.
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I'm surprised nobody has thought of the obvious:
mercury is
considerably denser than glass, so the glass would float on the
surface. All you have to do is skim it. Never mind skimmed milk,
Sellam, you can have skimmed quicksilver ;-)
I noticed it was actually staying on the surface, but I don't want to
touch it! That'd be dangerous. I just want to quaff it.