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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1293799, member: 27832&quot;]Wow, $10 a pound? He got a heck of a deal, I think -- the few times I looked into getting some, it was a lot more expensive than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s tough to move now. It&#039;s not illegal to have, and not even &quot;naughty&quot; to have in the sense of &quot;drug precursors&quot; or other restricted materials. But it&#039;s a hazardous material, and I think it&#039;s specifically called out in a lot of shippers&#039; prohibited or extra-cost lists. When it could still be advertised and sold on eBay, I think most people just lied about it on their packaging.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are still lots of interesting uses for mercury; find any &quot;science for kids&quot; book from the 1950s or earlier, and you&#039;ll see a real horror-show of tricks and projects. There are lots of people who&#039;d love to get some; some of them might even be trusted to handle and dispose of it responsibly -- but I don&#039;t know how you&#039;d go about finding those people.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was one website I used to visit, sciencemadness.org, where a lot of experimenters hung out. He might be able to find an interested party there.</p><p><br /></p><p>If he elects to be entirely above-board with this, he&#039;d probably need to turn it in as a hazardous material, and he&#039;d probably need to <i>pay</i> handsomely to get rid of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The eight-year-old science enthusiast inside me would love to have it all for himself, but I don&#039;t think he could talk the forty-eight-year-old adult shell into taking on the responsibility. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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