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https://www.thoughtco.com/when-you-touch-liquid-mercury-609286 https://www.thoughtco.com/when-you-touch-liquid-mercury-6092... This article suggests that the fe

https://www.thoughtco.com/when-you-touch-liquid-mercury-609286 https://www.thoughtco.com/when-you-touch-liquid-mercury-6092... This article suggests that the fears of mercury are exaggerated. Still very present, but exaggerated. Unfortunately, it's all anecdotes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5001828/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5001828/ Actually eye opening account of a child swallowing mercury and was just fine. I found lots of articles touting that mercury can vaporize at room temperature and then be absorbed through the lungs but none of them had details of how much exposure this would cause.

tsol 4y ago
My mother grew up in India. There were apparently some asectic 'sages' that would play with mercury she told me about. I don't really know what they were doing, just that my mom always remarked that she didn't understand how they would hold the mercury in their hands and seem to be fine. There's apparently something to it, whether it's a trick or otherwise.