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Quick Science Sift 11:Absurdly dangerous liquid mercury demo

Just watching this video gives me the chills. A HUGE amount of mercury metal is used to demonstrate its density (other metals float on it!), free flowing behavior and high surface tension. This little vat must be giving off mercury vapor inside that house like crazy! The choice to use a zippo lighter is particularly troubling as some Hg certainly must have leaked into it, it will be vaporized with the flame the next time its used, only to then be directly inhaled by the smoker!

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