22 Mar
2006
22 Mar
'06
6:39 p.m.
> What's so bad about that? Mercury is about as
dangerous as lead.
But organic mercury salts are much more dangerous,
As are organic lead salts, the native metal though is most dangerous if
you drop it on an extremity.
and there are definitely people out there that are
stupid enough to
generate them.
For them we have natural selection. 8^)=
Didn't we have this discussion not too long ago?
Not me, unless decades of soldering has done for my memory.
Lee.
22 Mar
22 Mar
6:44 p.m.
One more thing that you do not want to hear in surgery is,
"Dude, you're getting a Dell."
6:57 p.m.
On 3/23/2006 at 3:39 AM Lee Davison wrote:
Not me, unless decades of soldering has done for my
memory.
Yes we did--I believe I cited the story of Karen Wetterhahn:
http://www.udel.edu/OHS/dartmouth/drtmtharticle.html
Other researchers have noticed that when elementary mercury is put in
landfills, combination with other organic compounds renders it quite a bit
more toxic.
Cheers,
Chuck
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