Mercury is a really nasty metal that can cause lotsa
damage even in small amounts. However unless you've
been storing mercury batteries in the oven or they've
been totally corroded or you've been cutting them open
and eating them I wouldn't worry about mecury
poisoning from batteries. The reason they were banned
was not so much becuase they were directly killing
people but because people weren't disposing of them
properly. Mercury in general landfills = Superfund.
Mark Lloyd
--- Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 6:02 AM +0000 4/5/02, olympus-digest wrote:
> >Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:19:31 -0500
> >From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" <lamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: [OM] Storage of mercury oxide and
> silver oxide batteries
> >
> >When you learned that mercury batteries were
> poisonous, you bought a big
> >supply, subjected them to extreme temperature
> (probably well beyond their
> >designed limit), then stored them with your food?
> Does it sound alarming
> >when I put it that way?
> >
> >Lama
> >
> >PS. By the way, guys, mercury bio-accumulates.
> That means that if you are
> >exposed to trace amounts over long periods of time,
> your body stashes it
> >away in your bone marrow. I don't endorse hoarding
> mercury batteries.
> >Mercury poisoning is a terrible way to live and
> die.
>
> Look up the vapor pressure of mercury at freezer
> temperature, 10 degrees farenheit. Something else
> will have to kill me. Maybe it will hurt the film
> also stored in the freezer.
>
> And don't forget to account for all the silver
> amalgam (with mercury) fillings in my teeth.
>
> Joe
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