How much mercury to kill a dog?
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According to this there will be far, far too little mercury in it to be a risk to dog by ingestion, clearly vapour is potentially more of a problem in theory but I can't imagine it'd be that easy to accidentally vapourise and then inhale the tiny amount of mercury on your floor, especially given that you've already cleaned up the obvious bits.
wombat172a said:
Conian said:
Soovy said:
The Hypno-Toad said:
10 feed dog more mercury.
20 if dog = dead then goto 40
30 goto10
40 dog dead
50 end
BASIC. Love it.20 if dog = dead then goto 40
30 goto10
40 dog dead
50 end
BlackVanGirl said:
According to this there will be far, far too little mercury in it to be a risk to dog by ingestion, clearly vapour is potentially more of a problem in theory but I can't imagine it'd be that easy to accidentally vapourise and then inhale the tiny amount of mercury on your floor, especially given that you've already cleaned up the obvious bits.
Gawd there is SO little basic understanding of the physio/chemical properties of Mercury.It is always vapourising when spilled there's nothing you can do to stop it doing so, there's no 'accidentally' involved. The only accident is dropping the intercoursing thermometer. Get a under tongue (for humans) rectal (for dogs) battery powered thermocouple type to avoid this type of thing in future. Best get 2 so as to avoid forgetting which was used for what. Other than dusting the spill with flowers of sulphur to convert it to mercuric sulphide there is no way to stop the mercury eventually totally evaporating (the only metal with a vapour pressure at ambient temperatures). It will take up on a DRY sponge but because of its very high surface tension kitchen towel will just spread it around.
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