• @onyxjet
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    404 days ago

    Sir why do you have 5.35kg of liquid mercury?

  • partial_accumen
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    244 days ago

    I appreciate you only buy virgin Mercury. The first pressing always produces the best result.

  • LostXOROP
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    84 days ago

    Mercury has a density 13.5x that of water, making a small amount of mercury surprisingly heavy! (And making these bottles feel very weird to hold).

      • LostXOROP
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        44 days ago

        I bought it from this guy, $236 for a bottle. Please only buy it if you know what you’re doing, as it is very bad for the environment and your health if it’s spilled or handled improperly.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 days ago

          Mercury gas is what’s dangerous right? Not it in liquid form? I guess you mean Careful dropping on a surface that can turn it into a gas ( I’m uncertain of it’s boiling point.) Yeah too rich for my blood. Maybe I’ll find someone that has one in person someday.

          • LostXOROP
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            22 days ago

            Generally yes, but if you spill it it can be very hard to clean up, and if you don’t clean it up it’ll evaporate over the course of decades and poison you slowly.

            If you want a safer and cheaper (though less heavy) option, I can shoot you a DM once I start making mercury ampules.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 days ago

      Totally off topic, but I was curious how dense this was compared to nuclear waste and it’s pretty close.

  • @[email protected]
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    34 days ago

    I wish mecury was more accessible to just play with. A room temperature liquid metal is just interesting.

    • LostXOROP
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      34 days ago

      Yeah it’s a shame it’s so dangerous. You can get alloys like Galinstan that are liquid at room temperature, but they tend to stick to stuff and aren’t nearly as dense.

      • @daggermoon
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        74 days ago

        It’s danger is sort of exagerated. As long as you take reasonable safety precautions you will be fine. Here’s a guy flushing a toilet with mercury.

        • @essell
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          24 days ago

          The video only shows that he could, I wonder if he stopped to think if he should.