sirius_cm
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Chemical Handling....
Ok, i have to know if I'm going crazy. Now I've read the MSDS of my mercuric salts. Now they are pretty bad. So I was like, what about NaOH,
lye, so I checked its MSDS out. It was pretty bad too. Now I handle NaOH like it was sugar. I mean I've done simple NaOH + HCl combos with HCl in
excess. Now I never get this stuff on me, are the mercuric salts bad enough that I should be going crazy with safety?
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Haggis
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Err...I wouldn't sprinkle sodium hydroxide over your cheerios though.
Be as safe as you think you need to. For your mercuric salts, gloves and goggles of course. Then working with them in powdered state, wear a
respirator to filter many stray particles. Don't inhale, ingest, or touch with bare hands and you should be fine.
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There's a difference between mecuric salts (and other toxic chems) and NaOH. If you ingest let's say a gram of *dissolved* NaOH (by mistake)
you'll survive. It's not the case with a soluble mercuric salt.
NaOH is corrosive while mercury salts are extremly toxic. So you CAN handle NaOH (a common chemical after all) being carefull not to get it in your
eyes; a short contact with the bare hands is harmless. But it's not the same thing when dealing with mercury salts or other toxic chemicals...
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sirius_cm
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Yea, my big thing is the respirator, i mean I just get all freaked out when I think about it.... I mean, if I take these thing in the great vent hood
that is the outdoors, should I be ok?
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I am a fish
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Mercury(II) Chloride is 6 times more toxic than Sodium Cyanide (in terms of oral LD50 in rats). Be very careful with it.
[Edited on 16-6-2003 by I am a fish]
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mick
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mercury
If you drank metal mercury it would not do you any real harm, if you got enough of a soluble mercury salt on your hands then your teeth will start
falling to bits, you hair will disintergate and your fXXXXXXX
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Darkfire
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You go drink some mercury and check back with me later -
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blip
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mick's correct, or so I've read. It's not gonna hurt you unless you've got some ulcers or something strange.
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Darn, the ulcer thing puts me out of the ability to drink mercury. And I've always wanted to do so. Damn you ulcer causing caffeine.
I guess it makes sense as Hg is lower in the activity series than Hydrogen. You'd need an oxidising agent in your stomach too, to actually do
any damage.
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But what about the throat? and once pass the stomach there also the intestin, no?
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