cfl: Did you play with Mercury in Grade School? by the Central Kentucky Home Inspector - 01/06/08 06:19 AM
I finally figured out what happened to me in grade school.  It was the mercury, in the broken thermometers, that we played with.
Remember those little silver balls that would roll around, break apart and come back together.  Roll them from hand to hand.  Everybody thought it was pretty cool stuff back then.  Did the teacher give it to us or did we break the thermometers on our own.  Heck, I don't remember.  I just remember how cool it was to play with the little balls of mercury.
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