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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 88897, member: 669&quot;]Back when dinosaurs walked the earth and I was in high school, it was considered a lot of fun to break thermometers and then use our fingers to rub the released mercury on cents and nickles so they would look like silver coins.&nbsp; Of course, in a fairly short time they turned grey and ugly, but what the heck. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>As the only common metal that was liquid at room temperature, it was also used in chem lab experiments of various types.&nbsp; Needless to say, no one yet realized that, as stated on <a href="http://danpatch.ecn.purdue.edu/~epados/mercbuild/src/poison.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://danpatch.ecn.purdue.edu/~epados/mercbuild/src/poison.htm" rel="nofollow">&gt;&gt; this site &lt;&lt;</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, yeah - we got rid of our handiwork by spending the nice shiny coins. :goof: </p><p><br /></p><p>(Sometimes, as the extent of the dangers facing human life forms becomes better known, I have to wonder how enough of my generation survived to fight in Korea and parent so many of the baby boomers. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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