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Re:Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) by ekianjo on Thursday May 07, 2015 @02:56AM (#9503635)
Oh, Mercury poisoning has been known for a very, very long time, and certainly well documented since the late 1800s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning

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Re:Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) by modoc on Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:09AM (#9503670)
And yet my parents (both born in the 1960's) both played with beads of mercury on their desks in school on numerous occasions... It was pretty common
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Re:Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) by rwmj on Thursday May 07, 2015 @05:52AM (#9504005)
When I was at school (1980s) the teacher had us line up and put our fingers in a flask of mercury. It was a very peculiar sensation. I probably wouldn't want to repeat that "experiment" today.
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Re:Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) by ekianjo on Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:13AM (#9503680)
Sure, I'm not saying the general knowledge of mercury poisoning was commonplace back then, but in the scientific community it was, I believe, well known already.
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Re:Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) by pilsetnieks on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:14AM (#9503825)
It was the Nazi soldier community they were worried about.
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Re:Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) by Crito on Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:02PM (#9507451)
Mercury poisoning has been known for some time, however people in the general public knowing or caring about mercury poisoning is a pretty recent phenomenon.
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