What is this superstitious fear of mercury? Years ago, I was working in a lab where they were recycling contaminated mercury, and I was in the presence of several tons of it at one time. The cleaning process consisted of drawing air through a large aspirator flask, hooked up to a water-powered aspiration hose, under a rinse of first sodium hydroxide solution, then a nitric acid solution, for a series of procedures that took a full week to complete, changing the cleaning solution daily. There was occasion for me to plunge my arm (in an industrial glove) into the pool of mercury, and it has tremendous pressure just a few inches below the surface. Rocks or bricks float on mercury like Styrofoam on water. It takes considerable effort to force your arm down into a pool of mercury.
This, of course, was before the days of OHSA, and I wasn’t even wearing a respirator mask. So I must have inhaled a LOT of mercury vapor.
Now it is some forty years later. What’s the problem?
“What’s the problem?”
It’s a known fact that constant exposure to Hg causes severe bouts of procrastination.
You’ve been a FReeper for over 7 years and still haven’t created an “About” page. I rest my case.
J/k
“What’s the problem?”
It’s a known fact that constant exposure to Hg causes severe bouts of procrastination.
You’ve been a FReeper for over 7 years and still haven’t created an “About” page. I rest my case.
J/k