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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Calder created that fountain in 1937.
My 7th grade science class, in the late 50's, they passed around a beaker of mercury for each student to hand dip a coin. When the coin was thoroughly coated we put it in our pocket to take home. Eventually the mercury would wear off the coin. Now where do you suppose that mercury went?  |
I remember in high school science class, in the late 60's, we made mercury by heating an orange colored powder in test tubes over Bunson burners. We all then put our mercury into a large beaker, after rolling it around in our hands and playing with it, and tried floating different objects in it.
A few years ago, same high school, my nephew told me the entire school was evacuated when someone dropped and broke a mercury filled thermometer in a hallway. Go figure.