My morbid curiosity got the better of me, and I clicked on the first youtube link. At about the two minute mark, he states, "mercury isn't as bad as people think."
He has made many such videos in which he plays with large amounts of elemental mercury. Spoiler alertÑhe has no protective equipment. I considered posting a comment
to his video about the dangers of elemental mercury, but I wonder if the central nervous system effects have already taken hold, so it wouldn't help.
Looks like I have another message to my teachers: "Do not use this as a scientific phenomenon on density for your class."
Eddie McGrath
Edward J. McGrath
Supervisor of Science
Red Clay Consolidated School District
1502 Spruce Avenue
Wilmington, DE 19805
(302) 552-3768
We did not inherit the Earth from our parents. We borrowed it from our children.
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I read that and thought without a doubt somewhere in the world, some quack, charlatan, or dumb*** is charging people to float on pools of mercury for "therapy" or fun. Or at the very least, it's on YouTube. With a density of 13.56 g/mL
you'd barely sink in at all. Would make swimming in the Dead Sea look amateur.
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https://www.energy.gov/em/articles/doe-awards-task-order-elemental-mercury-long-term-management-and-storage
DOE Awards Task Order for Elemental Mercury Long-Term Management and Storage
12/10/2019 03:26 PM EST
The Office of Environmental Management (EM) is issuing a task order for a lease for storage space as a DOE facility
DOE AwCincinnati -- The Office of Environmental Management (EM) is issuing a task order for a lease for storage space as a DOE facility for the long-term management and storage of elemental mercury to address DOE's responsibility as required by Section 5 of
the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008, as amended by the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. This lease supports storage of up to 6,800 metric tons (7,480 tons) of elemental mercury in existing buildings at the Waste Control Specialists
LLC (WCS) site near Andrews, Texas.
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