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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 05:08 PM Original message |
Boy Found Playing With Mercury At Home- estimate that the spill is between 1 & 3 lbs |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. How the hell does a kid get that much Mercury |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 05:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. That is an impressive amount of mercury! |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. Where would he have found such a large quantity of mercury? |
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Der Blaue Engel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 05:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I had a friend in jr. high whose father was a dentist |
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mcscajun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 05:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Good thing none of your rings were Gold. |
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troubleinwinter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 06:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Dad brought me some home from the lab when I was a kid... |
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StarryNite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 06:52 PM Response to Reply #2 |
18. His fillings? |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
5. That's a lot of mercury. |
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mcscajun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
6. WTF was Grandpa doing with it? How did the Housekeeper recognize it? |
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Rhythm and Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
7. That is...a lot of mercury. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
9. Urbana? |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
10. A lot of commotion over not much. Anything to generate a panic. |
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-..__... (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
11. I found about 40 lbs of the stuff a few years ago. |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 06:14 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. That was probably a barometer. |
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-..__... (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 06:26 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. 40lbs in a barometer? |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 06:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. How very strange. I can't see how it would be worth it just for weights. |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 06:14 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. It was also used in haberdasheries |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
12. My friend and I played with lots of mercury as boys. Now you understand my madness. |
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