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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've played with mercury when I was a kid. Hopefully it doesn't come back to bite me in the ass when I'm old.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Both my parents have told me playing with mercury like this was pretty common when they were kids. One's still alive. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

My aunt even drank some and nothing happened.

Metallic mercury should be fine. Not the fumes though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It was commonly used as medicine for quite some time.

It didn't work, but then nothing much did at the time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It has such low bioavailability...