• Troy@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I wonder what secondary compounds this was creating. Elemental mercury is pretty much fine, but if it was reacting with other things to create wacky fun times…

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      7 months ago

      they chewed the leather to hides to soften them, IIRC. so it wasn’t just getting on their hands, they were ingesting it.