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I wonder how many of these spills go unreported! In high school one of my classmates told me how he used to crack open thermometers and play with the liquid.
by tomlock 11y ago
I wonder how many of these spills go unreported! In high school one of my classmates told me how he used to crack open thermometers and play with the liquid. I don't know if it was mercury or not, but it seemed to be, and he was completely unaware of how toxic it was.
- ubernostrum 11y agoMy mother told me that when I was very young (too young to remember), I was sick and she stuck a thermometer in my mouth to take my temperature. And I promptly bit the end off it, and had to be rushed to the hospital to have my stomach cleaned out of mercury.
- jcadam 11y agoI did that as a small child. I have a vague recollection of it. Pretty sure I wasn't rushed to the hospital. My mother was mostly upset I ruined the thermometer.
- leni536 11y ago>in my mouth Was that common in the US for mercury thermometers? In Hungary it was always "under the armpit" but as far as I remember I have seen the thermometer in mouth method in US cartoons.
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- ghaff 11y agoYes. I always had my temperature taken orally. (Although I don't use mercury thermometers these days.)