• Gorgritch_Umie_Killa
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    2 days ago

    Reminds me of a story my partner told me about a ‘science geek’ in her year at school.

    He brought loose mercury in with him to science class. As he showed the teacher, the teacher apparently evacuated the classroom. The kid got a good talking to apparently.

    Not sure what happened to the mercury.

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      That’s wild. In my year 6 class the science teacher poured loose mercury onto a cutting mat, and rolled it around a bit. There’s so little danger in mercury if you don’t physically touch it. And don’t have long term exposure.

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        In my primary school science class, they poured mercury into our hands and we each had a turn playing with it for a while.

        I also just remembered I had this toy maze thing where you had a blob of mercury that you needed to get to the centre like those ball-bearing mazes. Yep, a child left unattended with a blob of mercury and nothing but a layer of simple clear plastic stopping the kid from drinking the stuff.

        Obligatory Bandit.

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        Hahaha, what a legend! Practical teachers were always my favourite.

        Yeah, i didn’t go into too much detail because i can’t really remember the story, so i don’t know if there was a legit problem, or the teacher was just reacting to the potential. I have this vague memory about him rolling it around the palm of his hand, but i don’t trust my memory on that detail.

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          12 hours ago

          Well, Nath also apparently remembers mercury being put into not just the teacher’s, but students’ hands, so you might be remembering that right.