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Yes, dimethyl mercury is terrifying stuff - it killed Karen Wetterhahn from a few drops that went _through_ the gloves she had on: > The case proved that the s
by gilleain 1mo ago
Yes, dimethyl mercury is terrifying stuff - it killed Karen Wetterhahn from a few drops that went _through_ the gloves she had on:
> The case proved that the standard precautions at the time, all of which Wetterhahn had carefully followed, were inadequate for "super-toxic" chemicals like dimethylmercury
(from the Wikipedia page [3])
- ErroneousBosh 1mo agoMethyl any sort of metal - especially heavy metals - are probably not something you want to splash on like aftershave. There aren't really any "good" organometals, but if there were, they wouldn't be this stuff.
- lstodd 1mo agoSufficiently pure dichloromethane is also fun stuff. It just eats through most any gloves, plastics, whatever. Even PET, and only polyethylene is somewhat resistant. LD50 about 2mg/kg oral. By oral it's meant that well.. if you soak your hands in it it will be worse. Still it's the goto thinner for f/ex gluing ABS. I have a couple liters sitting on the shelf right beside me.