On 5/23/2017 5:56 PM, William Sudbrink via cctalk wrote:
Mercury
"bouncing around" in her body for almost a year before she finally passed.
It also "went through" the back of her hand without making some awful
lesion. 1.3 grams?! I've always gone with the mental crutch that a paper
clip weighs about 1/2 gram. So almost three paper clips "slipped" into her
body. Wow.
Useful to note this is not metallic mercury. It was dimethyl mercury,
which meant that the methyl radical tagged on the mercury was very
friendly with the material on the gloves she wore, and with her skin and
dragged the heavy metal rapidly to her blood stream. And eventually to
lots of places and killed her.
Metallic mercury isn't anything you want to ingest, but it won't go thru
your skin unless it has some other compound to drag it, or unless you
are very unlucky and jam it into an open wound.
Thanks
Jim