"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
Trident wrote:Does it have anything to do with evaporation? Like the smaller puddles will be more likely to go into the air and you'll breathe them?
Bingo!
Liquid mercury isn't as bad as gaseous mercury.
Ubi caritas est vera, Deus ibi est.
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
Haha. I was going to say that it's because if you broke Mercury up into little pieces, then there'd be a whole fleet of dangerous rocks hurtling towards the Earth. Except, a) I'm not familiar with orbital patterns, but, I don't think they'd head towards Earth and b) they'd burn up in the atmosphere. But still.
Mercury = planet, too.
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That's why I made sure to signify what it was by putting its symbol close by.
Ubi caritas est vera, Deus ibi est.
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
I was going to say that it would be because of the increased surface area, then you would have more mercury mixing with the air, and then you would be breathing it in! Guess i came a little late to say that though...
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A protective mask? PSH! Try a breathing apparatus. Mercury is very toxic.
But if you keep it as a liquid, it's fairly safe. So you have to make sure that it stays a liquid.
And didn't I say that I thought, "D'oh!" when I heard the answer?
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"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
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