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

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

http://www.dhmo.org details the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide.

Kreigh


Jim Daly 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.
>