• Tar_Alcaran
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    4 months ago

    Well, when you lick mercury, you’re actually going to swallow a lot of it. Thankfully, you’ll poop most of it out, and as long as you do it once, it won’t kill you.

    But if I had to pick between licking lead or mercury, I’d go with lead.

    • Frostbeard@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Oh yeah. I am om team lead. The problem with Mercury is the vapor that ridiculously easy methylates when heated, and then you have a nerve toxin that quite easily crosses the blood-brain barrier.