Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Never touched the stuff after the second grade. I opted for lead paint chips, which explains a lot. They're crrrrunchy! Chuck Albertson Seattle, Wash. > I've always wondered why the many many tens of thousands of kids that grew > up in the hundreds of years before the EPA, who played with metallic > (liquid) mercury and grew up to be CEO's Scientists, Business moguls, etc, > never had a rotten brain problem? > > Perhaps it is the form, pure liquid Hg vs a particular mercury compound > ingested, that caused the Minimata problem. > > > > Jim Brick, ASMP > Senior Scientist > Agilent Technologies > Imaging Electronics Division > jim_brick@agilent.com >