r/BeAmazed • u/himmokala • Dec 15 '24

Science Using red dye to demonstrate how Mercury cannot be absorbed by a towel

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u/C4LLgirl Dec 15 '24

I doubt it. Though there are forms of mercury that are even worse than that. Dimethyl mercury leads to an awful death if you get just one drop on your skin. Check out the wiki. Truth is elemental mercury isn’t great at entering our body and moving around inside. But little organo mercury molecules are really good at it, and very very dangerous 

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u/bloopie1192 Dec 15 '24

I heard a story from that guy on YouTube that enters his videos with "patient x entered into the ER presenting..." thats why I'd asked.

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u/C4LLgirl Dec 17 '24

Who knows might be possible, I am not a physician