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

[J Bryan Kramer]

I saw a news report a few days ago about them finding some fellow dead on
the floor of his home, and the autopsy determined he died from drink too
much water.

I can also recall that kids used to play with mercury and there were no
bodies found around the activity. Methyl mercury is highly toxic, elemental
mercury is so only on extended contact.

BK

On Feb 2, 2008 11:10 AM, Jim Daly <sauktown1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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J Bryan Kramer
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