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When I was at school in the 70s, if we got something on our hands in the science labs we'd wash it off with acetone or benzene (but were never advised to drink
by julian_t 3y ago
When I was at school in the 70s, if we got something on our hands in the science labs we'd wash it off with acetone or benzene (but were never advised to drink them)
And I still remember the chemistry teacher rolling beads of mercury round his palm to show us how mobile it was.
- sokoloff 3y agoAcetone appears to be pretty high on the effective-divided-by-unsafe spectrum.
- henearkr 3y agoYeah acetone is innocuous (at reasonable doses) and even present (and produced) naturally in our body.
- PakG1 3y agoI remember my science teacher telling us they used to use mercury in the class and he'd wonder if any of his old students were walking around cuckoo because of it.