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Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:48 pm
Trident says...



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?
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Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:49 pm
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XD

You guys are hung up with procedures, lol.

Ducati wrote:You'd be exposing it to air?


Psh, how does this matter? :P
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Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:51 pm
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'Cus it'd evaporate? xD

I suck at Chemistry.

EDIT: Trident beat me :)
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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! :D

Liquid mercury isn't as bad as gaseous mercury. ;)
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Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:55 pm
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So... I was half right!

And gaseous mercury is very tasty, really. But you're right, liquid tastes better.
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Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:03 pm
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Nice.
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Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:55 pm
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Gaaahh! That was floating around in my head too!
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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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Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:54 am
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That's why I made sure to signify what it was by putting its symbol close by. :P
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Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:59 am
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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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Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:10 am
melkor says...



Thats it?

Because it's more harmful as a gas?


I thoguht that wa skinda obvious...

doesn't that mean the answer is

'because you'd need a protective mask?'


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Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:14 am
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A protective mask? PSH! Try a breathing apparatus. :P Mercury is very toxic. :P

But if you keep it as a liquid, it's fairly safe. So you have to make sure that it stays a liquid. :P

And didn't I say that I thought, "D'oh!" when I heard the answer? :P
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