Hey /sci/, so I found a bottle of mercury in my physics classroom

>>7904275
go to the ER moron

Isn't mercury just very heavy, it's not poisonous, nothing bad would happen if it just touched my skin, right?

the vapor is super toxic, touching it without gloves isn't recommended, but it absorbs really slowly into the skin, you'll be k

Also touching your pencil should be aight

>>7904286
Oh, now I'm relieved, thank you.

>>7904286
Touching the pencil can lead to lead poisoning though.

>>7904275
Lick it anon

>>7904283
>One drop on your hand is lethal
>Not poisonous

>>7904275

>physics student
>smart

pick one.

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>>7904587
>graphite is lead

>>7904602
>Claiming pencils are made out of graphene.

>>7904275
Most likely there are no remains on the pencil, however

1. Throw the pencil away.
2. If you put it in a pocket, throw the clothing article away
3. wash your hands very thoroughly
4. shower.

People have been putting mercury in their mouths for decades, and they were ok for the most part.
Such sort contact won't be very damaging, but it's best to be careful.

>>7904275
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNx2bJUctRE

>>7904275
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n2L-pAem2k&feature=youtu.be

>>7904622
>paranoia

Seriously though, mercury has low skin absorption and you'd need to bathe in it to get mercury poisoning. Unless you make this a regular thing, nothing will happen to you.

Vapors and ingesting on the other hand, not a good idea.

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>>7904609
>graphite is graphene

>>7904275
You're lucky no one found out. Mercury exposed to air is pretty much an auto evacuate for the whole building

>>7904596
>One drop on your hand is lethal
bullshit

>>7904622
>they were OK for the most part
MAD AS A HATTER

>>7904275
>bionerd
Cringed

>>7904275
I broke a thermometer in chemistry and played with the droplets with my pen, it has really low adhesion so there's probably none/very little on your hand

>>7904682
>memeing

Try putting it on a burner and inhaling the fumes for immunity.

>>7904275
Find the Mercury and drink small amounts, getting bigger and bigger

Then, you'll develop immunity

If we're lucky, then you'll stop shitposting.

>>7904275
>Am I going to die?
Yes. Human life is fleeting a fragile, the sooner you accept this the sooner you can grow as a person. The mercury probably won't do you in, though.

>>7904674
Didn't people use to bath in it? THinking it had magical healing properties`

Lick it

>>7904674
This.
Also, requesting the pic of the guy dipping his dick into liquid mercury (or possibly gallium). Somebody must have it.

>>7904275
it would be extremely painful

>>7905225
As long as you don't inhale it it's more or less perfectly safe to drink it. It's still used as a laxative in some places.

i think avoiding the vapor is more important than avoiding skin contact
but don't go shoving your hand into it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1FnF5zUPEE

>>7904275

Yes, someday

>>7904705
If it was methyl mercury (and some other organomercury compounds) it would be.

But no school would be negligent enough to let you play with them

>>7904674
People are thinking about organomercury compounds here. Those are incredibly toxic. A girl was killed when some dimethylmercury seeped through her gloves. Took a whole year to die too.

>>7906364
>If it was methyl mercury (and some other organomercury compounds) it would be.

>Oxygen is lethal
>no its not
>Well, if its was Oxygen difluoride it would be

Literally this retarded

>>7904602
>>7904679
Weeaboos are a burden on society.

>>7904596
mercury and dimethylmercury are not the same thing

>>7906395
No need to be so hostile, anon.
I wasn't the poster who said one drop would kill you.

I also meant dimethylmercury.

>>7906420
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>>7906452
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>>7906452
>>7906579

what just happened here?

>>7906624
Reddit happened

>>7906452
>>7906579
science sure is swell.

>>7906729
yup, you could almost say I fucking love it

>lab got moved to new building last year
>searching old "abandoned" building for gas/tubing parts
>find a toolbox next to gas cylinder on one floor
>start browsing through, actually find a valve I need
>see dirty-ass glass bottle
>pick it up, oddly heavy
>slosh it around, see mercury inside
>drop it immediately, see four more bottles
>mfw anyone could just pick this shit up, all halls and most doors unlocked
>tfw can't blame shitty research progress on it cause no contamination

Grabbed some glassware and standard weights for scale calibration, too.

>>7904283
it doesn't kill until you start breathing mercury fumes