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Originally posted by wreckdiver:
I guess I'm doomed! My dad was a plumber and I worked for him as a kid 50+ years ago.

We used to play with it, make coins slippery as snot. No telling how many of those little balls of silver stuff went down the garage drain eek: Or where those coins ended up.

To this day I have about 5lbs. of it

In junior high school, we had a quart sized bottle of it in the classroom. We used to play with it all the time, trying to hold it in our hands or chasing those little balls around the counter and sweeping it all back up into the bottle with our bare hands.

Mercury is a naturally occurring element and is in pretty much everything that comes out of the ground/water. Always has been, always will be. I worry more about getting hit by a bus than I do excess mercury in my fish and we don't even have buses here.

Boogeyman. Same goes for lead. Does actual toxicity occur? Sure. Rarely. It doesn't even register on my give-a-dang meter. Your average person is more likely to get killed by lightning than heavy metal poisoning.

do not get mercury near structural aluminum. Bad things happen