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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's actually harmless if not ingested. They were being weird.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its also harmless, generally, when ingested as the gastrointestinal absorption of elemental mercury is negligible. It is inhalation that is most concerning with elemental mercury.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Except eating paint chips with lead made a lot of kids dumb. Lead based paint held up awesome, but it was banned due to injection. Not inhalation. Even now, 40+ years later it's still the leading cause of lead poisoning in children.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean… we’re talking about mercury here, not lead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Oh, fuck me. Lol. I commented last night and then responded back today and in between my mind totally flipped to thinking it was about lead.