The high school I went to in the 1960's was refurbishing the chemistry lab and they simply discarded all the bottles of chemicals into waste bins in what was the playground behind the school. I looked thru the bins and took many jars of chemicals home including red mercuric oxide. When I got home, I put the mercury compound in one of my mother's frying pans and put it on the stove and heated it up. The compound decomposed to produce liquid mercury with some vaporizing. I took it off the stove to let it cool. I am sure I must have inhaled some mercury but never became symptomatic of any poisoning - I was both lucky and stupid as I did not appreciate what the toxicity of mercury was. Doing stupid chemistry things stayed with me with many further adventures in university.
Pharma Phil
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Date: May 27, 2020 at 9:50 AM
We kept ours in an Erlenmeyer flask, and I could never get my hand past the bottleneck.
On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 1:06:26 AM UTC-7, Terry Kennedy wrote:
I grew up in a time where in elementary school you got to dip your hand up to the wrist in a bottle of mercury,
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