Touching Mercury...(crap...)?!
Question:
Touching Mercury...(crap...)?
It was like... couple years ago... a thermometer broke and i touched mercury.. I washed it off, but im still worried it can do damage... so far... i had no symptoms of mercury poisoning... but should i still be worry?
Answers:
Most household thermometers don't use real mercury, so your worries are likely unfounded. But even so, we used to play with the stuff when I was a kid. There's really nothing to worry about with a brief single exposure like that. There are rare cases of massive exposure, but most of the neurologic horror stories you've heard are about long-term repetitive exposure.