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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1366774, member: 27832"]Well, <i>that's</i> new. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like this is a matter of state law. The first hit I found was for Oklahoma, where it's a felony to possess more than one pound of mercury without "valid written evidence of his title to such mercury", and with defense allowed if you're a "bona fide miner or processor of mercury" or if the mercury is "an integral part of a tool, instrument, or device used for a beneficial purpose".</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://public.esquireempire.com/Possession-More-Than-1-LB-Mercury-Oklahoma-Felony-Okla-Stat-tit-21-1726" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://public.esquireempire.com/Possession-More-Than-1-LB-Mercury-Oklahoma-Felony-Okla-Stat-tit-21-1726" rel="nofollow">http://public.esquireempire.com/Possession-More-Than-1-LB-Mercury-Oklahoma-Felony-Okla-Stat-tit-21-1726</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the stuff I've found for North Carolina pertains to dealing with mercury switches in scrapped vehicles, and getting the stuff out of schools. When, er, if I had bought a couple pounds off eBay years ago, I didn't think about new laws lacking grandfather clauses. Sigh.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's a shame the stuff is so insidious and persistent; liquid metals are all sorts of fun, especially when they're as dense and standoffish as mercury. (Gallium-indium is liquid at room temperature, but it costs dollars a gram, it sticks to <i>everything</i>, it gets a nasty oxide film, and it's less dense than iron.) Might as well black out all the experiments dealing with it, along with the ones calling for carbon tetrachloride, iodine, phosphorus... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1366774, member: 27832"]Well, [I]that's[/I] new. :( It looks like this is a matter of state law. The first hit I found was for Oklahoma, where it's a felony to possess more than one pound of mercury without "valid written evidence of his title to such mercury", and with defense allowed if you're a "bona fide miner or processor of mercury" or if the mercury is "an integral part of a tool, instrument, or device used for a beneficial purpose". [URL]http://public.esquireempire.com/Possession-More-Than-1-LB-Mercury-Oklahoma-Felony-Okla-Stat-tit-21-1726[/URL] Most of the stuff I've found for North Carolina pertains to dealing with mercury switches in scrapped vehicles, and getting the stuff out of schools. When, er, if I had bought a couple pounds off eBay years ago, I didn't think about new laws lacking grandfather clauses. Sigh. It's a shame the stuff is so insidious and persistent; liquid metals are all sorts of fun, especially when they're as dense and standoffish as mercury. (Gallium-indium is liquid at room temperature, but it costs dollars a gram, it sticks to [I]everything[/I], it gets a nasty oxide film, and it's less dense than iron.) Might as well black out all the experiments dealing with it, along with the ones calling for carbon tetrachloride, iodine, phosphorus... :([/QUOTE]
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