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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 90678, member: 66&quot;]Yes Mercury, like all heavy metals, is a poison but it is nowhere near as dangerous as it is made out to be.&nbsp; It won&#039;t pass through the skin, and even ingestion of the metal isn&#039;t that hazardous.&nbsp; The greatest danger comes from inhalation of mercury fumes.&nbsp; That is how it poisoned the hatters.&nbsp; The hot pressing of the felt vaporized the mercury and the fumes were inhaled.&nbsp; (This is also how it tended to poison gold and silver miners who used it to extract the metal from the crushed ore.&nbsp; The metal amalgam was heated to drive off the mercury and recover the other metals.)&nbsp; If the metal is reacted with acids and organics the resultant compounds can be very poisonous, but the metal itself is not really all that hazardous.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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