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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2302819, member: 66&quot;]Well it really isn&#039;t that dangerous.&nbsp; There are a lot of things people use or do every day that are a lot more dangerous than Mercury.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t recommend drinking it (Aand even that may not be too hazardous because I don&#039;t believe mercury reacts that much with hydrochloric acid, stomach acid, so it might just pass through.&nbsp; Or boiling it and breathing in the fumes, but other than that elemental mercury is fairly benign.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back when they first began freaking out over lead in paint and they banned it in paint in homes, it was replaced with latex paint.&nbsp; The problem was the latex paint had a tendency to develop mold.&nbsp; So as an anti-fungicide they added mercury to the paint.&nbsp; And over time the mercury DOES out gas out of the paint so people in the homes end up breathing mercury fumes, but they were safe from the lead (which was only a problem if you sanded the paint or ate paint chips.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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