[Rockhounds] How Toxic is Cinnabar? (Mercury sulfied)

[Jim Daly]

THanks, Kay. You expressed the situation better than I could.
  Your opening comment about Dihydrogen Oxide reminds me of a tongue-in-cheek MSDS for Oxygen, written by Isaac Asimov. I can't remember it all (it was a LONG time ago), but it said in part: "Extremely toxic in concentrated form. Even at 20% concentration, few survive exposure for more than a century".
  Jim

Kay Davis <kaydavis at estrie.qc.ca> wrote:
  Good Morning,

People tend to forget that anything will kill you if the conditions are
right... even DiHydrogen Oxide, if you consume too much of it in a too short
period of time.


       
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