Im not a scientist in anyway, but wouldn't it be like "fatal" to even be in that room because of the vapors coming from that Mercury?

Very cool video anyway=)

That's a lot of mercury.

*brief

>> ^Rawhead:
Im not a scientist in anyway, but wouldn't it be like "fatal" to even be in that room because of the vapors coming from that Mercury?
Very cool video anyway=)


If you pay close attention, you can hear the sound of air being drawn. Just like when you use chemicals under a fume hood.

This video has been flagged as being less than 1 minute in length - declared brief by mauz15.

I like how he's wearing gloves as a precaution, then just drops the ball in there, letting the mercury splash.

That, I didn't know.

Ah yes, but will it blend?

I would not want to spend much (any?) time in that room. Mercury is bad for you.

http://www.videosift.com/video/How-Mercury-Causes-Neurodegeneration-Brain-Damage

where's the diving board?

>> ^Rawhead:
Im not a scientist in anyway, but wouldn't it be like "fatal" to even be in that room because of the vapors coming from that Mercury?
Very cool video anyway=)


Mercury is very non-volatile, so it's reasonably safe as long as you don't spend days locked in with it.

>> ^thinker247:
I like how he's wearing gloves as a precaution, then just drops the ball in there, letting the mercury splash.

Mercury is only really dangerous if it enters the bloodstream (which happens if you ingest it or breathe its vapor). It's ok to have mercury bounce off your skin once in your lifetime, as long as it doesn't come near a wound or thin skin (like under your fingernails).

I was waiting for the T-1000 to skewer him.

Is that Larry David?

Quicksilver (elemental mercury) is relatively safe if well ventilated even with bareskin. You wouldn't immerse your hands in the tank but splashes landing on your arm wouldn't do you any harm.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

Would hate to get splashed in the eye with the stuff. I've heard that it does feel really strange to play with a glob of mercury. It can't decide if it's a solid or a liquid.

This is an example of a good titled VS post - has us wonder, click, watch.

What the hell's that bit at the beginning about the mercury column and why it's short? wtf?

>> ^dag:
Would hate to get splashed in the eye with the stuff...


He's wearing glasses though.

I think there's an incredible fear about mercury. Before the 80's it was all around us, even in children's toys. Now people go over-the-top with avoiding it, imo.

>> ^doogle:
This is an example of a good titled VS post - has us wonder, click, watch.
What the hell's that bit at the beginning about the mercury column and why it's short? wtf?


Probably about barometers
http://tinyurl.com/dhaojb

What I find interesting about it is if you look at the edges of the ball in the mercury, you can see the surface tension pulling the mercury away from the ball.

>> ^Ornthoron:
Mercury is very non-volatile, so it's reasonably safe as long as you don't spend days locked in with it.

>> ^Asmo:
Quicksilver (elemental mercury) is relatively safe if well ventilated even with bareskin. You wouldn't immerse your hands in the tank but splashes landing on your arm wouldn't do you any harm.

>> ^flavioribeiro:
Mercury is only really dangerous if it enters the bloodstream (which happens if you ingest it or breathe its vapor). It's ok to have mercury bounce off your skin once in your lifetime, as long as it doesn't come near a wound or thin skin (like under your fingernails).


So mercury is only dangerous if it gets into your blood stream, and does not absorb through the skin very quickly. I wonder how it gets into the blood stream, and how people get mercury poisoning these days?

http://www.videosift.com/video/Mercury-vapor-from-dental-fillings

^ Please, lets have some common sense

http://www.videosift.com/video/Mercury-vapor-from-dental-fillings

Read the dissenting comments, and check your periodic table to see if mercury vapors near room temp will rise.

Mercury is so bloody awesome!

And yeah that is a SHITload of mercury!

>> ^obscenesimian:
^ ... check your periodic table to see if mercury vapors near room temp will rise.


I checked mine. Your periodic table is damn detailed to have that info.

Alright, turns out Mercury is pretty damn dangerous. Especially around lots of it.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Mercury-Hg

thats great!

Since we are talking about Mercury... here's some interesting facts...

Gold mines are the nation's largest source of mercury pollution. Like all mining, separating and processing the gold creates tons of toxic metals, like lead and mercury. Nevada is home to eight of the nation's top 10 mercury polluters. Here is a list of the top 100 Some other sources: Coal Fired Power Plants, Cement Kilns, Incinerators, Chlor-alkali Production, Chemical Plants.

In 2005 the FDA did a study that showed mercury in many food products that contained High Fructose Corn Syrup (due to mercury in the caustic soda and hydrochloric acid used in the manufacture of HFCS), and the FDA did absolutely nothing about it.

^ BOOOOOOOORING

>> ^qruel:
Since we are talking about Mercury... here's some interesting facts...

LIAR!

Yeah, mercury is not too bad. Dimethylmercury, on the other hand, is so incredibly poisonous that it's slowly and horribly fatal if you get just a few drops of it on your fucking latex gloves. Poor Karen Wetterhan.

I could go for some mercury shots.

In primary school we were being shown mercury in a closed container... well... someone dropped it, and it feel on the wooden floor, splashing everywhere, and globules of the stuff rolled between the largish gaps in the floorboards... and stayed there... I remember many a time of trying to fish out the globs with bits of paper or sticks or the like.

Yeah... there was some good Occupational Health and Safety

>> ^doogle:
>> ^obscenesimian:
^ ... check your periodic table to see if mercury vapors near room temp will rise.

I checked mine. Your periodic table is damn detailed to have that info.




Atomic weight (200.59) should be sufficient to tell you that the density of mercury vapor is much greater than that of nitrogen and oxygen, the largest components of air. If the vapors in the video http://www.videosift.com/video/Mercury-vapor-from-dental-fillings were mercury, the vapors should be falling not rising.

Do you need more details?

I want to make videos with titles that ask seemingly-rhetorical questions only to then reveal what would have been the expected result in the first place.

Will a bag of puppies float in lava?

*toss*
*sploosh*
*yip* *yip*

No! Why would you think that?

>> ^Asmo:
Quicksilver (elemental mercury) is relatively safe if well ventilated even with bareskin. You wouldn't immerse your hands in the tank but splashes landing on your arm wouldn't do you any harm.


I didn't know I had a bearskin.

>> ^obscenesimian
Atomic weight (200.59) should be sufficient to tell you that the density of mercury vapor is much greater than that of nitrogen and oxygen, the largest components of air. If the vapors in the video http://www.videograter.com/video/Mercury-vapor-from-dental-fillings were mercury, the vapors should be falling not rising.
Do you need more details?


^Obscenesimian, You're absolutely right.

The air at surface of the Earth is always the coldest, because warm air rises and cold air falls, so no warmth would ever stay close to ground where people live. These currents of air are NEVER able to push or pull ANYTHING along with them, not newspapers, kites, hang-gliders, and ESPECIALLY not other diffused particulate matter, such as vapors or fumes. Wind is just your imagination playing tricks on you half the time, and the other half it is Angels playing tricks on you. Toxic vapors and fumes are never a problem for us humans because the molecules that make up paint, gasoline and ESPECIALLY mercury are ALL heavier then nitrogen, oxygen and all the rest the components of the atmosphere which are always arranged in layers from heaviest to lightest particles and never mix. This is why smoke and ash always fall away from combustion sources and never rises. It is simply not plausible why these different particles would ever WANT to mix, and so they NEVER do. DIFFUSION is a myth created by Adolf Fick in 1855 to confuse good Christians into believing his friend, Charles Darwin's hoax of evolution, published four years later.

Do you need more details?

Obviously not a lead cannonball unless it's hollow. Iron perhaps? My eyeballs say it's about half the density of mercury.

>> ^obscenesimian:
^ Please, lets have some common sense
http://www.videosift.com/video/Mercury-vapor-from-dental-fillings
Read the dissenting comments, and check your periodic table to see if mercury vapors near room temp will rise.


The concentration of mercury in air may be low enough that thermal differences dominate. Nothing in gaseous form will completely separate into pure layers. Gasses tend to diffuse and mix due to random thermal motion.

>> ^qruel:
Since we are talking about Mercury... here's some interesting facts...
Gold mines are the nation's largest source of mercury pollution. Like all mining, separating and processing the gold creates tons of toxic metals, like lead and mercury. Nevada is home to eight of the nation's top 10 mercury polluters. Here is a list of the top 100 Some other sources: Coal Fired Power Plants, Cement Kilns, Incinerators, Chlor-alkali Production, Chemical Plants.

In 2005 the FDA did a study that showed mercury in many food products that contained High Fructose Corn Syrup (due to mercury in the caustic soda and hydrochloric acid used in the manufacture of HFCS), and the FDA did absolutely nothing about it.


Presence of "detectable" levels is meaningless unless you name a specific concentration. Nearly everything will randomly contain at least 1 part in 10^20 of whichever stable element you want, which could be measured with a sufficiently accurate mass spectrometer.

>> ^jwray:
Obviously not a lead cannonball unless it's hollow. Iron perhaps? My eyeballs say it's about half the density of mercury.

The density of mercury at room temperature and pressure is higher than that of lead even though the atomic weight is lower.
Mercury = 13.534  g/cm3
Lead = 11.34 g/cm3
But that still doesn't explain that half of it floats above the mercury, so maybe it is hollow or a different metal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead

I love when sifties talk science.

Where's Dom DeLuise?

>> ^notarobot:
>> ^obscenesimian
Atomic weight (200.59) should be sufficient to tell you that the density of mercury vapor is much greater than that of nitrogen and oxygen, the largest components of air. If the vapors in the video http://www.videograter.com/video/Mercury-vapor-from-dental-fillings were mercury, the vapors should be falling not rising.
Do you need more details?

^Obscenesimian, You're absolutely right.
The air at surface of the Earth is always the coldest, because warm air rises and cold air falls, so no warmth would ever stay close to ground where people live. These currents of air are NEVER able to push or /a>



Heh,

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageplanet/01volcano/01/indexmid.html

And furthermore you tard...... ahh whats the point of this argument!!? We should all be more worried about the asshats we encounter while hurtling at high speed in our mercury vapor spewing carbon monoxide emitting death traps.

^jwray
your statement is true....one needs to take into account the actual levels of mercury.

from the abstract: The samples were found to contain levels of mercury ranging from below a detection limit of 0.005 to 0.570 micrograms mercury per gram of high fructose corn syrup. Average daily consumption of high fructose corn syrup is about 50 grams per person in the United States. With respect to total mercury exposure, it may be necessary to account for this source of mercury in the diet of children and sensitive populations.

this was one of two studies done on the subject. While I know the 2nd one found mercury in more products that contain HFCS, I'm not sure at what levels.

obscenesimian, I wanted to share with you the response I got in regards to the rising mercury vapor.

First, the reason the vapors are rising is due to the air current provided to make them do so. Otherwise they would fall and could not be visualized as easily. This is just good photography.

The reasons we know this is mercury vapor is the following:

1. What else could it be coming distinctly from the amalgam? Tin, Copper, silver and zinc do not vaporize into gases like mercury does.
2. Others say it is water but the amalgams are dry. Also, water does not absorb the UV light (a mercury vapor lamp) as does mercury vapor. In other words, water vapor does not absorb the UV light, if it did we could not do UV spectrometry in water solutions which is very common place in biochemical research.
3. In the class I taught at the University of Kentucky called “Mercury, Science and Politics” the students did the ‘smoking tooth’ experiment. While doing this they used the mercury vapor analyzer from the OSHA office to measure mercury levels in the mouths of each other (some with and some without amalgams). During the smoking tooth experiment the students were directed to place the intake of the mercury analyzer into the ‘smokey release’ and test it for mercury. There was absolutely no doubt, the meter on the mercury analyzer showed the vapor was mercury. Heat the amalgam and the amount of vapor visualized increased and the analyzer meter increased also.

Boyd E. Haley, PhD
Professor Emeritus
University of Kentucky
Chemistry Department

^ Crap, quack, BS. Boyd E. Haley is a scientist of dubious morals and a known scam artist with a penchant for suing people who stand up to him publicly. you are an anti vaccine/amalgam loon and I will waste no more time on you and your appeals to authority, straw men, etc. Have fun with my AD hom's

good day

Ah, your true colors are starting to show. previously you mentioned that "The vapor is most likely water." So I contacted the source to provide clairification to which you throw out a bunch of ad homs instead of addressing any "real" issue you might have with what was presented. You disingenuously claim I'm making an appeal to authority when in fact all i did was provide the explanation from the person who made the video.

Are you really that prideful when being corrected about something you've misinterpreted?

So let me get this straight. The FDA subverts science, loses in court and now has to acknowledge that mercury vapor from amalgams can be harmful and yet you label me an anti-amalgam loon? that is quite humorous seeing as I have the science and court victory on my side http://toxicteeth.org/mercuryFillings.cfm

oh, you might appreciate this video also
http://www.videosift.com/video/What-s-in-Your-Mouth-British-TV-expos-on-mercury-fillin
and have a great day yourself !