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[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago

It's actually harmless if not ingested. They were being weird.

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Its also harmless, generally, when ingested as the gastrointestinal absorption of elemental mercury is negligible. It is inhalation that is most concerning with elemental mercury.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

Except eating paint chips with lead made a lot of kids dumb. Lead based paint held up awesome, but it was banned due to injection. Not inhalation. Even now, 40+ years later it's still the leading cause of lead poisoning in children.

[-] DrRatso@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

I mean… we’re talking about mercury here, not lead.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

Oh, fuck me. Lol. I commented last night and then responded back today and in between my mind totally flipped to thinking it was about lead.

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