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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