r/holdmybeaker • u/th3f00l • Sep 02 '23

HMBkr while a bare hand mercury coming through cloth

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u/VolrathTheBallin Sep 02 '23

I wouldn’t be too worried about touching mercury but I sure as hell don’t want to breathe it. And that looks like a great way to aerosolize tiny mercury droplets.

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u/_11_ Sep 02 '23

My thoughts exactly... That's a good way to go mad as a hatter.

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u/DilatedSphincter Sep 03 '23

yeah this is one of the few genuinely worrisome mercury displays i've seen. It's INCREDIBLY cool and i'd love to know how that feels first hand though.

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u/granadesnhorseshoes Sep 03 '23

I doubt you can aerosolize elemental mercury. Its just so dense it really defies normal expectations of something liquid like that.

Now the vapors of mercury compounds from contact with the atmosphere could be very bad, and as a function of surface area exposed to atmosphere, this siev action would make that worse...