Don’t try this at home, kids.
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I remember being in grade school and the teacher would put a little blob of mercury out on top of a desk, and we would “play” with it by making it move around – marveling at it staying in a “ball” state and not spreading out as any other liquid would. Now you cannot even buy a mercury thermometer, and you practically have to call a haz-mat team if a fluorescent bulb breaks because of the minute amount of mercury in the ‘dust.’
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I remember my chemistry teacher, Smitty, had mercury on hand.
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