[alexander_busek]

I remember as a boy in the 50s playing with mercury all the time. You could buy it in some places. In my hands, fingers, etc..... 55-60 years later I write this.

Ah, but did you hoard mercury until you had enough to boil on the kitchen stove - undoubtedly inhaling the fumes in the process - attempt making various amalgams, occasionally ingest some, and, in short, play with it until your hands turned black?

Regards,

[cripplecreek]

The hatter was mad because of mercury fumes.

[Gaffer]

So, in your contorted view, make the exposures, conditions and concentrations enough to cause a problem and then proclaim the substance is a “cancer causing agent” altogether.

Hysteric connections derived from contrived concoctions are not the norm except in the realm of those with ulterior motives.

Given your conditions of gassing, etc. What do you say about mercury vapor in broken CFLs in the home? Disregard them because it is ecologically friendly?

[Axenolith]

I’ve got 12.5 pounds of it sitting on my office shelf.