The thing that cannot be denied is that he was diagnosed with mercury
poisoning (see 37), so the question remains where did that come from?
If it wasn't from the tubes, what was it then?

Michel



On Feb 10, 7:06 am, "chuck richards" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah, same here.   I too used to play with mercury when I
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> Oh sure, yes, it would be harmful if you poured it out
> into a big pan and heated it on the stove and stuck your
> head in the pan to inhale the vapor.
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> But, just normal everyday handling?   I think people are
> freaking out about nothing.   Such is the case though about
> lots of things now, so it's no real big surprise.
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> >---- Original Message ----
> >From: [email protected]
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Class action lawsuit...
> >Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 07:42:06 +0000
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> >>On 9 Feb 2012, at 05:04, Terry Kennedy wrote:
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> >>> When I was a kid in elementary school, each year the science
> >>> teacher would pull out the jar of mercury and pour it into a
> >>> shallow pan, and we'd all run our fingers through it and marvel at
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> >>> how something so heavy could be a liquid.
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> >>In the UK, in the days of pounds shillings and pence, LSD, a
> >ha'penny
> >>was very much the same size as a shilling.  So lots of schoolboys
> >>would break open a thermometer and coat the ha'penny with the
> >mercury
> >>to make it silver and pass it off as a shilling - 24 times the
> >value.
> >>Smearing the mercury on the coin with a finger, of course. I think
> >>that's what they call liquid assets.
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> >>John S
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