I had 14 mercury amalgam fillings installed in my teeth between the ages of 10 and 14. I had an immediate violent reaction and thought I was going to die. It destroyed my school years and l went from being a high flyer to the class dunce failing all my exams. Today as an old man I've had a rough time finding work. I suffered about 20 illnesses some life-threatening. I still suffer today although l got rid of the toxic fillings 20 years ago. My hands have little feeling in them causing me to constantly drop things. My life has been ruined by mercury poisoning but the dental profession refuses to admit any responsibility.
Amalgam is completely safe, there are many published papers regarding this concern in the american dental society .. my grandfather lived up to 93 years healthy with like 10 amalgam fillings
Again, you got elemental mercury confused with dimethyl mercury or other organic compounds. Mercury itself isn't poisonous, however it is very hard for your body to get rid of it once it's in, which can cause problems down the line. However, you would need to be exposed to mercury vapor on a regular basis to get any negative effects. Organic mercury compounds on the other hand are a different story, and you seem to be talking about both at the same time. You said a few drops could kill you if you touch it, but that's not true, because I have worked with mercury before and touched it, and I'm fine. In short, you have confused elemental mercury for organic mercury Edit: I would like to correct myself, mercury IS poisonus, but in its liquid phase its relatively harmless, unless it gets into an open wound or you literally take a bath in it. Mercury does, however, fume a lot, which can be seen using a black light. These fumes are dangerous if inhaled repeatedly over the course of your life. But playing with it occasionally while following safety guidelines is pretty much fine. This video is still bs though
I remember when I was a kid, a thermometer containing mecury broke. I was amazed then at how this metal behaves like water as I have never seen it before. It formed a small droplet on the table, which I roll around using a stick. I left it on the table for a few moment as I play around and when I got back, my big cousin swept it away.
@@johnwilliams5533 Going to guess Mark is relatively young (17-20). It is surprising in the "digital age" many things that are no longer "common knowledge" even with an internet search engine at your fingertips :-)
One of my chemistry teachers in high school owned a small bottle of mercury maybe 200ml. He told us he was not supposed to have the stuff because of how dangerous it was. But he was such a great science teacher that he let us feel the bottle to see how heavy it really was considering it was a liquid. He did not however let anyone open the bottle! He was what made me so interested in chemistry and how it makes up everything!
Children even know that. Most adults do not even know that. I have worked in a lab that uses Mercury testing purposes. I was a part of the ERT team. I had to fight tooth and nail to get the ventilation system fixed properly. I was constantly ridiculed by the other employees. But this was only because I was strict is strict and cautious. I suppose this was because of my approach but they were constantly constantly playing with it like it was a toy. I eventually was successful in curving the negative behavior.
As a child in the late 70’s or early 80’s I handled mercury. It was from a broken thermometer... no rash or hair loss. Methinks this video greatly exaggerates the deadliness of mercury.
@@DannyAyriyan If people just say mercury they should mean metallic mercury, not compounds of it. This is misleading. Pure mercury is not half as dangerous as most people think.
nobody: literally nobody: riddle: What If You Fell Into a Mercury Pool? me: who would even do this? but still lemme watch it so that i can showoff infront of my friends
Operator: 911, please state your emergency: Me: I have inhaled mercury vapours, Operator: how did this occur? Me: well, I followed the instructions on youtube perfectly, but after entering the mercury lake I needed to breathe and took a deep breath.
Me and my classmates back in elementary days used to play with mercury from a broken thermometer. It was fun but we didn't know that mercury is very dangerous
If 1T people is a dark shadows then we well die we all need a base to live before dark shadows come to kill us we need a new earth we can found but we need more what we say a space ship 500k space ship to go in another earth it well take few months to go
I had a bottle of it when I was a young kid and went and tip the whole bottle out into a Rivera’s it made a cool sound as it hit the water and shined once sitting on the river bed..
@@vivimannequin what I a ridiculous about because I ingested a quarter cup of raw dirty mercury as a 14 year old, decades later..I'm fine and yes it was real.
My late Mother was born before WWII. She told me as a a child, she used to “play” with liquid mercury as if it was a toy. Kids at that time would roll the mercury spheres around in their hands!!! No one was educated at the time how toxic it is. No serious health problems happened to her though. Once I accidentally broke open one of those old fashion thermometers! I was trying to put it back in its own case which was a stupid design. You had to push the thermometer into a clip built into the plastic case. It was not a simple task. The thermometer snapped in two and all the mercury spilled out onto my dresser! When I saw those shiny silvery beads form I screamed for my husband who knew how to clean it up. He worked in a Safety Kleen laboratory at the time so he’s dealt with many chemicals like acids and mercury. He put on a face mask 😷 and 🧤. I don’t know how he disposed of it but I didn’t care other than I was so relieved 😌. I was so glad he was home that time!
I ate Mercury when I was 14. My brother broke a Thermometer into my rice bowl. I ate it without knowing it.. I'm alive and well.. This video tells I shouldn't be alive.
Indians get so defensive about the dangers of mercury because they put small amounts of it in their traditional meals and its been long believed to have health benefits. But all the traditions in the world dont disprove the science on mercury's danger
I used to sleep in the shit! Seriously. I had a few jars of it and would mess around with it while watching TV on my bed in my room. I'd spill it all over the place. At 10 years old, I wasnt the first one to clean up spills. I didnt know about it being dangerous until my teens. Wooops, a little late I guess. 😂
When I was a kid my grandmother had a thermostat that didn't work. I just to like looking at the mercury in the switch roll back and forth. I took the switch out and broke it open and played with the mercury. I wanted to know if it was magnetic. Then I put it in my mouth. I suspect that I died of poisoning and the rest of my life from that point has actually been my time in hell.
Same, i got my self some mercury from a thermometer as a kid, mercury was interesting toy so i played with it for a few days until at some point lost it somewhere in the house, who knew it was so dangerous, my parents didn't know either, guess i almost died?
We had mercury thermometers when I was a kid and were told they were more accurate than those new ones coming out. Just don’t bite down very hard while taking your temp. Yes, we did throw them out after the science broke out.
@@kaidinbyrd8979 Only in its gasous form tho.Coz yeah like he mentioned in the video the metal mercury just...if u touch it,it dosen't stick to you so it won't affect your skin.But if you eat it then i'm sure that would kill you pretty fast.
I've had someone I knew off hand die getting it spilled on accident on their gloved hand in a lab setting. So...no it can be it depends. She may have also inhaled the gas as well either way. Her skin was damaged
The liquid phase of mercury is not dangerous or poisonous if your skin get into touch with it. The surface tension of mercury in his liquid phase is really high. It does not moisten your skin. It is a total strange feeling sticking a finger in a beaker filled with mercury under room conditions. It feels like the liquid try’s to push out your finger quite strong. If you stick your finger into water, it feel quite neutral, even if there is buoyancy. But stick your finger into a beaker filled with mercury, you feel a absolutely weird buoyancy force upwards. How do I know? I did it several times in school age. You have to know what to do. What is really dangerous, is mercury vapor! And if you have mercury, you have mercury vapor as well. Inhaling this, is highly poisonous. I knew it when I did these experiments and was respectively taken care. Again, the message right in the beginning of the video is wrong. Pure liquid mercury is not that poisonous.
You know when you were in middle school n you were like “this is cool, I wonder what would happen if...” then the bell rings n you forget about it? No? well riddle remembers, Riddle remembers EVERYTHING!
I grew up in the 80's so we had those old thermometers. One broke and as a kid I played with the silver liquid for a while until my mom saw what I was doing and just told me to knock it off. I never got sick or anything.
I was a child in the 80s and remember mercury was shortly popularized as a toy to play with. There was also a thick paste (like slime) that had a strong acetone smell; it would come with a little straw so you could blow your own funky smelling giant colorful bubble. 🤦♂️
There was a story ChubbyEmu made a video on about a woman that accidentally spilt 2 drops of liquid mercury on her hand even though she had two pairs of gloves on, it caused her mental state to rapidly decrease and then put her in a coma, I forgot if she died or had to live the rest of her life mentally crippled.
this is like watching vsauce on speed. The question: "What If You Fell Into a Mercury Pool?" is repeated over an over again and the next sentence is always not the answer instead some other hyperbolic statement and the cycle starts again
ROBLOX SHARK Yeah Cody’sLab, he basically eats that stuff (Mercury) on a daily bases! Nah just kidding, but he has a great channel with interesting experiments and diy stuff.
Want to try this for real? Come have a swim in Onondaga Lake, Syracuse, NY! After years of trying to clean it up, the lake is still beyond the maximum mercury concentration limit. The fishing's great as well!
Don't forget about ice harvesting in the winter! It really is an all year attraction perfect for depressed tourists, really livens things up, ya know.. till it doesn't.
For the people that don't understand sarcasm: Unsafe levels of pollution led to the banning of ice harvesting as early as 1901. In 1940, swimming was banned, and in 1970 fishing was banned due to mercury contamination
When I was a child I once took a thermometer and it turned out to be broken and I got a silvery ball on my hand good thing my mother was in the room and I asked her what that was
Logan Dublin University Look up Cody’s lab he stood in it, holds it and put it in his mouth and he is fine. You just make to make sure it does not enter the blood steam and you will be ok. Some people will have more sensitive skin than others and will get rashes easy. I would suggest staying away from it though because safety.
That would've been an extremely tiny amount of mercury. It likely wouldn't have done anything to you, provided you didn't inhale any vapors. Mercury is very volatile, and a good conductor of electricity, which is the main reason why it was used in high-voltage/high-current vacuum tube rectifiers. Of course, these days liquid thermometers are made with alcohol instead of mercury, similar to the alcohol used in bubble lights. I don't remember what the alcohol is called, but it is sensitive to temperature changes and can be easily calibrated.
When I was kid during the 60s I played with mercury. I was able to buy it from a hardware store. It was able to be ordered and it was not expensive. If you want mercury today it can be ordered from chemical suppliers. The mercury you buy has to be registered, and you are responsible for proper disposal. It has to be accounted for at any time on demand.
“Don’t do this at home”
Ah yes, because all of us have a pool full of mercury lying around
Yea I have a pool of full mercury with some sulfuric acid mixed with it
Your everywhere
Hahaha riiiiiiight
670K gallons of mercury to fill an olympic pool will run you about 1.5 million. Expensive habit.
I am on Mercury and about to jump on a pool of mercury
This guy answers questions noone asked but everybody wants to know
simex he copies what if videos
Exactly
True
TRUE
yes
If Mercury is so deadly, imagine Venus or Mars
oh god what about saturn
Wait... What about Earth? :0
@@davisdf3064 bro calm down
It rains sulfuric acid on venus
What about mercury!
Respect for that SWIMMER who helped shoot this video.
U have no brain....
Thats photoshop...
@@ekonezung8649 holy shit, I guess your 15 brains couldn't figure out the fact that OP was being sarcastic
Ekon Ezung r/wooooooosh
Ekon Ezung r/woooooshhhh
*presses F*
I wonder if this guy narrates movie trailers on the side. He has that voice.
Go on great big story and look up movie trailer guy😂
Sounds like he’d belong on toy story or some shit
yeah he does
@@awsomedudeplays5243 yeah he does narate or yeah he does have the voice?
@@zhin13 yes
0:49 :
Everyone who had a lake of mercury ready to go:
“Damn it”
Lmao
@PolandBall Fan oh that’s who that was in my back yard.
Damn now what are we gonna do with all this Hg
What??!! My new Mercury Hot Tub is useless!! I wanted to float effortlessly on the top all day...
Dang it, now what am I supposed to do with all this mercury?
Mr.Beast:
Last one out this pool full of mercury wins $1,000,000
Edit: thought of another joke 2:47 ah yes perfect my chakara
Ali Aguilar nooooooooooooooope
Cody’s Lab be like:
Free money!
No one will win as everyone would die lol
@@forsakenwoozy4654 nope, not unless you sat there for a month
Lmao I don't think Mr beast has that much money since so one is leaving alive lol
I had 14 mercury amalgam fillings installed in my teeth between the ages of 10 and 14. I had an immediate violent reaction and thought I was going to die. It destroyed my school years and l went from being a high flyer to the class dunce failing all my exams. Today as an old man I've had a rough time finding work. I suffered about 20 illnesses some life-threatening. I still suffer today although l got rid of the toxic fillings 20 years ago. My hands have little feeling in them causing me to constantly drop things. My life has been ruined by mercury poisoning but the dental profession refuses to admit any responsibility.
Thats insane, I feel bad for you. Never knew that can happen. People need to here about this.
Thank god i only have 1, so far all good though.. been in there for about 20 years now
Amalgam is completely safe, there are many published papers regarding this concern in the american dental society .. my grandfather lived up to 93 years healthy with like 10 amalgam fillings
@@lordbaz5938 i have an amalgam too, im 16
MUSTAFA DURMUŞ that’s not something to be proud of mate
Again, you got elemental mercury confused with dimethyl mercury or other organic compounds. Mercury itself isn't poisonous, however it is very hard for your body to get rid of it once it's in, which can cause problems down the line. However, you would need to be exposed to mercury vapor on a regular basis to get any negative effects. Organic mercury compounds on the other hand are a different story, and you seem to be talking about both at the same time. You said a few drops could kill you if you touch it, but that's not true, because I have worked with mercury before and touched it, and I'm fine. In short, you have confused elemental mercury for organic mercury
Edit: I would like to correct myself, mercury IS poisonus, but in its liquid phase its relatively harmless, unless it gets into an open wound or you literally take a bath in it. Mercury does, however, fume a lot, which can be seen using a black light. These fumes are dangerous if inhaled repeatedly over the course of your life. But playing with it occasionally while following safety guidelines is pretty much fine. This video is still bs though
Pretty sure my chemistry teacher had us dip out fingers into a small beaker full of mecury.
@@SiliconBong report that teacher maybe? He may be urging to perform serial killing on the students in your school
@@antonm7191 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ please dont skip class next time lol
@@antonm7191 reading too difficult you yes
I remember when I was a kid, a thermometer containing mecury broke. I was amazed then at how this metal behaves like water as I have never seen it before. It formed a small droplet on the table, which I roll around using a stick. I left it on the table for a few moment as I play around and when I got back, my big cousin swept it away.
Nobody:
Riddle: “WHAT IF YOU SWAM IN MERCURY?!”
Me: Why would anyone ask this question? Idk but let’s find out
I thought they were talking about the planet Mercury I never heard of this stuff is it something found on the planet Mercury
Mark Herrera They explain what is it in the video, also I hope you’re trolling. It’s a metal
CODanist yeah but I don’t think they said where it came from and I’m not trolling I seriously don’t know
@@johnwilliams5533 Going to guess Mark is relatively young (17-20). It is surprising in the "digital age" many things that are no longer "common knowledge" even with an internet search engine at your fingertips :-)
I thought It was a planet pls don't kill me...
“Don’t do this at home”
People dont have that mutch mercury.
Codys lab: Hold my beer.
Exactly what I thought.
That video sucks ass. They run around the pot spending 8 minutes saying that mercury is dangerous.
Hey... This Cody we are talking about here...
He would say "hold my mushroom" or "hold my bee hive" perhaps even "hold my potato"
*Codys lab: Hold my mercury.
@@DjangoHackJackEXE HA
@@DjangoHackJackEXE Mercury was Singing We Will Rock You 😂 😂😂😂
“Don’t do this at home”
Welp, there goes my weekend plans :(
I thought t'was another episode of what if😆 anyways I love both channels
Nee too what if also has a sme episode
Exactly
Same here
Same here
I also thought the same thing
Ridddle is one of those that answer questions to things you never knew you wanted to know and its awesome.
I agree
"Ridddle"
Hell ya zombies ray gun 🔫
Faxxx
See "What if " they also ask amazing questions
Why do I feel like he's trying to convince us to swim in Mercury
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If you manage to submerge yourself in mercury for 10 minutes, you'll turn into silver surfer
"Don't try this at home". I wish you told me that before I ordered enough mercury to fill my own lake...
Oh, same dude.
damn. I eat it for breakfast, U serious?
69 likes 👌😂
I was the 69th like
@@suv_XD nice
The only liquid metal that I've ever known very dangerous is when he start chasing you and wants to kill that boy.
That’s only if your name is John Connor.
Best comment all day.
Odd enough I hear that the start up company “SkyNet” has started their own Mercury production factories LOL
Liquid steel will kill you it's pretty hot
Ahaa, good one there 👏
Ridddle, “So dont even try this at home”. Sure lemme just go grab 900 buckets of mercury and pour it in my swimming pool😂💀
Mohammed Al mutawa footed comment
this is not funny tho its dangerous
Ur local daily *dancing cat* 🤪🤣😭😭🤣🤣
@@exaltedjay9403 its not like anybody has buckets of mercury laying around chill
@@verlax8956 yea true.
Moral of the story: Diving into the pool of mercury will lead to a swim in blood.
God dammit you, take my liek and leave
And never buy a glass thermometer.
@@roshill2010 No. That mercury is almost entirely safe, especially in the quantity.
One of my chemistry teachers in high school owned a small bottle of mercury maybe 200ml. He told us he was not supposed to have the stuff because of how dangerous it was. But he was such a great science teacher that he let us feel the bottle to see how heavy it really was considering it was a liquid. He did not however let anyone open the bottle! He was what made me so interested in chemistry and how it makes up everything!
But it isn’t dangerous? Or, which type of it is it?
Riddle: "Mercury is SO dangerous"
Me: *Laughs in Cody's lab*
Haha nice
Yeah mercury is still super dangerous
Was lookin for that comment
This channel is trash honestly (Riddle)
@@AwesomeSauce7176 your profile pic is trash honestly
At 4:43
Narrator: Nothing serious will happen in one minute
Me : Really 🤔
i saw this the second he said it
Yes, in fact you can even put a little in your mouth as long as you don't swallow it.
yea, it kills very slowly and with horrifying neurological effects
“An imaginary swimmer, presenting to the emergency room” ☝️
Hydrargyrum meaning mercury. Emia, meaning presence in blood.
Mercury should be nicknamed "The Blood Of Satan".
Nah that would be hard to be written in the table
BoS
White blood cells of satan... 😂😂
@@yonathanrakau1783 you got me laughing there dude lol.
@@yonathanrakau1783 Devil's blood that is easier!!
“Make sure not to this at home”
*Yes,this really helped a lot.*
I've been playing with mercury when I was in high school whenever we have a laboratory class using mercury... Nothing happened to us...
Yes! This guys full of crap.
I hate when I'm just walking minding my own business and suddenly fall into a completely natural not man-made pond of mercury.
"Don't do this at Home"
Me: *Fine ill go to another country*
Home is my favourite nation
When i was a kid i remember my brother breaking a thermometer and he played with the mercury! I was like 4 🤔
No risk untill one has a cut
@@Mosieleng yeah a cut would have killed you
I like how this appeared on my reccomended before I got the notification
Bruh same
I thought it said "What if you fall into Mercury"Lol😂🤣
Edit:The planet mercury.
I read it the same way. That's why I clicked. Still a great video though.
That is why in my language those are two totaly different words - Merkur vs Živa ( Zheevah) :)
* Živa also meaning alive ( feminine - she is alive )
SPLAT!!
Its fell not fall
Children even know that. Most adults do not even know that. I have worked in a lab that uses Mercury testing purposes. I was a part of the ERT team. I had to fight tooth and nail to get the ventilation system fixed properly. I was constantly ridiculed by the other employees. But this was only because I was strict is strict and cautious. I suppose this was because of my approach but they were constantly constantly playing with it like it was a toy. I eventually was successful in curving the negative behavior.
As a child in the late 70’s or early 80’s I handled mercury. It was from a broken thermometer... no rash or hair loss. Methinks this video greatly exaggerates the deadliness of mercury.
Two different kinds of mercury. You handled the non organic kind which is WAYYYYY less dangerous
@@DannyAyriyan If people just say mercury they should mean metallic mercury, not compounds of it. This is misleading. Pure mercury is not half as dangerous as most people think.
You’re not a doctor
@@js70371 And you know this how?
@@MrTangent intuition
nobody:
literally nobody:
riddle: What If You Fell Into a Mercury Pool?
me: who would even do this? but still lemme watch it so that i can showoff infront of my friends
True bro, flexing on with our knowledge of science is 1000 times better than owning a Bugatti
Very useful advice. From now on, I´ll try to avoid jumping in the mercury lake..
Operator: 911, please state your emergency:
Me: I have inhaled mercury vapours,
Operator: how did this occur?
Me: well, I followed the instructions on youtube perfectly, but after entering the mercury lake I needed to breathe and took a deep breath.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
911 on the other side: damn it not again another dumb kid who got hunted by the misleading youtubers 😂 (jk riddle isn't one of em)
@@MXBG34 haha
Actually we jest, but imagine if this was on TikTok. Lol
Jesus : How are they walking on the lake ? that is my mojo
God : Its Mercury
Jesus: *Runs to help the people*
Me and my classmates back in elementary days used to play with mercury from a broken thermometer. It was fun but we didn't know that mercury is very dangerous
@Homie Cat Not really no, we even held it on the palm of our hands
You got to give riddle props like do you realize how much research he has to do to make these videos.
Oh ok
If 1T people is a dark shadows then we well die we all need a base to live before dark shadows come to kill us we need a new earth we can found but we need more what we say a space ship 500k space ship to go in another earth it well take few months to go
Ok
You know the voice is only the narrator? They have changed narrators a few times and riddle is a team not one person dipsh!t
Sorry Nick I didn't know I've only been watching riddle for a month so far
“Don’t try this at home”
Yeah ok, because imma spend up to a billion+ dollars on liquid Murcury to fill a whole lake and swim in it.
Cody's Lab did that, but on a scale small enough to stand in it.
I used to play with mercury as a kid. Never had a problem. As an adult I can see clearly out of my third eye.
Did you know that you can drink mercury
But its only a once in a lifetime experience
-me
YOLO
I had a bottle of it when I was a young kid and went and tip the whole bottle out into a Rivera’s it made a cool sound as it hit the water and shined once sitting on the river bed..
Mercury won't kill you if you swallow it unless it's a ridiculous amount
@@vivimannequin what I a ridiculous about because I ingested a quarter cup of raw dirty mercury as a 14 year old, decades later..I'm fine and yes it was real.
@@user-vl2zh6bj6x where did you get mercury?
Narrator : I will suggest you not to jump into the pool from a hill
Well me : I will suggest you not to jump only
Bro I was just about to take a dive in my mercury jacuzzi. Thanks for the tip
"Dont think about doing something like this at home"
But i had just collected enough mercury to fill a lake :/
Just get empty thermometers
@@redacted6447 huh? I think you're missing the joke
Don't do this at home.
Me thinking where I'm going to find a pool of mercury: :/
Better yet, don't do this anywhere. Eh?
buy thousands of thermometer , break them all , and extract the death wish
@@Left4DeadSamyS0S So you'll provide me the money to buy 100K+ thermometers?
We used to play with mercury when I was a kid. You could get it in kids science kits as well. never had an issue.
My late Mother was born before WWII. She told me as a a child, she used to “play” with liquid mercury as if it was a toy. Kids at that time would roll the mercury spheres around in their hands!!! No one was educated at the time how toxic it is. No serious health problems happened to her though. Once I accidentally broke open one of those old fashion thermometers! I was trying to put it back in its own case which was a stupid design. You had to push the thermometer into a clip built into the plastic case. It was not a simple task. The thermometer snapped in two and all the mercury spilled out onto my dresser! When I saw those shiny silvery beads form I screamed for my husband who knew how to clean it up. He worked in a Safety Kleen laboratory at the time so he’s dealt with many chemicals like acids and mercury. He put on a face mask 😷 and 🧤. I don’t know how he disposed of it but I didn’t care other than I was so relieved 😌. I was so glad he was home that time!
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I don't think anything serious would have happened. I have played with mercury from thermometers in my childhood, with no adverse effect.
I used to play with small amounts of mercury we could find along the road. Not sure where that from
I ate Mercury when I was 14. My brother broke a Thermometer into my rice bowl. I ate it without knowing it.. I'm alive and well.. This video tells I shouldn't be alive.
Yeah, elemental mercury isn't that deadly but methylmercury...
He said that a small dosage eaten will not kill you, listen again
@@polboss99 Ya.. He said both.. Anyway I'm alive.
@@srinivasv2750 He just said ingesting it will cause no harm in a tiny amount. This video definitely does not say that you shouldn't be alive
Indians get so defensive about the dangers of mercury because they put small amounts of it in their traditional meals and its been long believed to have health benefits. But all the traditions in the world dont disprove the science on mercury's danger
We played with mercury in 60's science class. Everyone lived.
I used to sleep in the shit! Seriously. I had a few jars of it and would mess around with it while watching TV on my bed in my room. I'd spill it all over the place. At 10 years old, I wasnt the first one to clean up spills. I didnt know about it being dangerous until my teens. Wooops, a little late I guess. 😂
"Do not try this"
***Telling every step of how your suppose to do it***
I literally “played” with like 150 ml of mercury in my hands. And nothing happened.
You can hold it and I think even eat it and you won’t be that poisoned but breathing the toxic fumes is the worst
"I literally “played” with like 150 ml of mercury in my hands. And nothing happened." ..................Yet.
@@user-vl2zh6bj6x not on the short term, watch out for brain, liver and kidneys damage in the future
Different types of mercury
@@cozychewy2159 When people warn of mercury poisoning it's usually in compound form
He : Don't do this at home.
Me : Ahhh! Nooo! I was just about to build a Olympic size pool of Mercury.
When I was a kid my grandmother had a thermostat that didn't work. I just to like looking at the mercury in the switch roll back and forth. I took the switch out and broke it open and played with the mercury. I wanted to know if it was magnetic. Then I put it in my mouth. I suspect that I died of poisoning and the rest of my life from that point has actually been my time in hell.
Same, i got my self some mercury from a thermometer as a kid, mercury was interesting toy so i played with it for a few days until at some point lost it somewhere in the house, who knew it was so dangerous, my parents didn't know either, guess i almost died?
Friend of mine played with a broken thermometer and his finger turned green for 5 days
Never tried it. Reason 1: I never had a thermometer 2: I was a smart child, but not as smart as I am now
Sanjay no his ghost typed the comment
We had mercury thermometers when I was a kid and were told they were more accurate than those new ones coming out. Just don’t bite down very hard while taking your temp. Yes, we did throw them out after the science broke out.
Mercury is not poisionous, but if it has impuritys like arsenic.....then its poisionous.
Pure mercury is dangerous too
@@kaidinbyrd8979 Only in its gasous form tho.Coz yeah like he mentioned in the video the metal mercury just...if u touch it,it dosen't stick to you so it won't affect your skin.But if you eat it then i'm sure that would kill you pretty fast.
@@loganwolv3393 mercury is harmless,, I accidentally ingested a palm full at age 14 ..nothing happened..so I'm proof its harmless
@@loganwolv3393 not true, mine was dirty and ingested a quarter cup..on accident
I've had someone I knew off hand die getting it spilled on accident on their gloved hand in a lab setting. So...no it can be it depends. She may have also inhaled the gas as well either way. Her skin was damaged
The liquid phase of mercury is not dangerous or poisonous if your skin get into touch with it. The surface tension of mercury in his liquid phase is really high. It does not moisten your skin. It is a total strange feeling sticking a finger in a beaker filled with mercury under room conditions. It feels like the liquid try’s to push out your finger quite strong. If you stick your finger into water, it feel quite neutral, even if there is buoyancy.
But stick your finger into a beaker filled with mercury, you feel a absolutely weird buoyancy force upwards.
How do I know? I did it several times in school age.
You have to know what to do. What is really dangerous, is mercury vapor! And if you have mercury, you have mercury vapor as well. Inhaling this, is highly poisonous. I knew it when I did these experiments and was respectively taken care.
Again, the message right in the beginning of the video is wrong. Pure liquid mercury is not that poisonous.
Imperial and Metric measurements? You Sir, are a gem!
The background music Suits the video
And don't forget the narrator's voice ; just amazing 🙂
I bit a mercury thermometer as a young child and nearly swallowed the mercury . Classic case of parents not watching kids .
Codyslab: Hold my beer! :)
You know when you were in middle school n you were like “this is cool, I wonder what would happen if...” then the bell rings n you forget about it? No? well riddle remembers, Riddle remembers EVERYTHING!
"People took mercury as a cure for many diseases"
Yeah, like depression.
bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh im not laughing
its didnt cure anything, but afterwards at least they always knew what their temperature was.
'Even kids know mercury is dangerous'
Me - ' is it? '
Lmao I felt that
Who else is still gonna carry on drinking mercury even after watching this video
What the hell!
What does it even taste?
Oh no no man it is not like the coca cola or smoking videos
If Donald trump said he hated mercury, the entire American left would drink it
me bro idc what he said mercury tastes good ass hell
I grew up in the 80's so we had those old thermometers. One broke and as a kid I played with the silver liquid for a while until my mom saw what I was doing and just told me to knock it off. I never got sick or anything.
A person sitting in a tub of toxic metal
Impressive 😂
Indeed
Bima Pramudya Even better!
It’s a simulation
I remember messing with Mercury as a kid when we found a broken thermostat. I probably shouldn’t have, but it was fun...
I was a child in the 80s and remember mercury was shortly popularized as a toy to play with. There was also a thick paste (like slime) that had a strong acetone smell; it would come with a little straw so you could blow your own funky smelling giant colorful bubble. 🤦♂️
You just brought back a stream of memories the smell then the straw. Hell yes almost thinknit was late 70's? Born in 68 thanks for the memories
I don't think you'd find a pool of any sort on Mercury.
In China you could
In Chinese Emperor tomb you could find a lot of mercury.
@@TONAL03 maybe I should go there to get some
@@TONAL03 It's been found in large pools under Mesoamerican temples as well.
fredie mercury
So I am an element! :(
Lololoolololoololoololllooollo
ImJustAce _ hey human can you help me be terraformed?
Mercury yea I think so
What will happen if you fall into a Mercury pool?
Short answer: You will emerge as T-1000
"Elixir of immortality"
“You might try to wait for all the Mercury in the lake to evaporate” ok but wtf would the point of this video be if no one was gonna swim in it
Just a Theory
"Even children know mercury is dangerous"
Me 27 years old finding out mercury is dangerous
Riddle: Standing on the mercury lake
Einstein: This is why I left
Einstein: pulls up youtube
Sees this
leaves and says weres the studies bc there probably in the trash
Oh, I thought this was the "What if" channel, because they answered this question 3 weeks ago.
“Shiny silver balls.”
HUH
CZcams -“Hey guys! i’m going to be walking on mercury in my BACKYARD!”
I was ready to do this until he said don’t do this at home FML
Lmfaooooo
Just go to the YMCA, boom loophole baby!
I’m 51 I recall in grade school them passing the mercury around and each of us kids handing it next to the guy behind us.
Random Fact:
Wood frogs can hold their pee for 8 months
- RealFacts
RealFacts nice
What If You Fell Into a Mercury Pool?
You will feel so hot like your next to the sun
Car Addiction SQUAD lol
Oh HAHA!! Good one! 😆
Indeed
There was a story ChubbyEmu made a video on about a woman that accidentally spilt 2 drops of liquid mercury on her hand even though she had two pairs of gloves on, it caused her mental state to rapidly decrease and then put her in a coma, I forgot if she died or had to live the rest of her life mentally crippled.
this is like watching vsauce on speed. The question: "What If You Fell Into a Mercury Pool?" is repeated over an over again and the next sentence is always not the answer instead some other hyperbolic statement and the cycle starts again
A little sensationalism goes a long way.
In high school chemistry class, we would coat coins in mercury.
Be glad this guy does everything that no other you tuber does
“Don’t Show this to Cody”
“Oh, ohh god... no, Cody! NO!”
• whos cody
@@nft8602 Cody's Lab. He's a great CZcamsr and has done some experiments with mercury.
ROBLOX SHARK
Yeah Cody’sLab, he basically eats that stuff (Mercury) on a daily bases! Nah just kidding, but he has a great channel with interesting experiments and diy stuff.
hes already done it. I have no idea why you are shouting "no" so loudly, hes fine and has been for years.
2:49 Good thing I’m a Libra I keep my balance like libras
finally someone gets it /srs
Instructions unclear: I turned myself into that one guy from the terminator who clips through walls.
What if already made the video on this.
Ikr but they have different explaination
Want to try this for real? Come have a swim in Onondaga Lake, Syracuse, NY! After years of trying to clean it up, the lake is still beyond the maximum mercury concentration limit. The fishing's great as well!
Don't forget about ice harvesting in the winter! It really is an all year attraction perfect for depressed tourists, really livens things up, ya know.. till it doesn't.
For the people that don't understand sarcasm: Unsafe levels of pollution led to the banning of ice harvesting as early as 1901. In 1940, swimming was banned, and in 1970 fishing was banned due to mercury contamination
I live an hour away from there. Beautiful lake but only from a distance
The narrators voice makes every video so damn suspenseful
This guy makes you get afraid of everything around you.
Well there are no lakes of mercury where I live so I'm not too concerned 😆
I haven't even seen a thermometer that uses mercury in like 20 years.
"Let's say it's a lake the size of an olympic pool"
Ummm... Why not just use the pool for the metaphor..😑
Ooh thanxx....I was just about to jump in a pool of mercury in my back yard 🤣
if you did immerse yourself in Mercury, is it then safe to say "Another one bites the dust"? plz don't ban me.
Once a mercury thermometer broke and all of it got on my hand. And nothing happened to me.
@Mr. Fluffy They said in the video that it can burn your skin.
When I was a child I once took a thermometer and it turned out to be broken and I got a silvery ball on my hand good thing my mother was in the room and I asked her what that was
Logan Dublin University Look up Cody’s lab he stood in it, holds it and put it in his mouth and he is fine. You just make to make sure it does not enter the blood steam and you will be ok. Some people will have more sensitive skin than others and will get rashes easy. I would suggest staying away from it though because safety.
@@ourworldisstrange7301 Time to heat it up on a stove.
That would've been an extremely tiny amount of mercury. It likely wouldn't have done anything to you, provided you didn't inhale any vapors.
Mercury is very volatile, and a good conductor of electricity, which is the main reason why it was used in high-voltage/high-current vacuum tube rectifiers.
Of course, these days liquid thermometers are made with alcohol instead of mercury, similar to the alcohol used in bubble lights. I don't remember what the alcohol is called, but it is sensitive to temperature changes and can be easily calibrated.
When I was kid during the 60s I played with mercury. I was able to buy it from a hardware store. It was able to be ordered and it was not expensive. If you want mercury today it can be ordered from chemical suppliers. The mercury you buy has to be registered, and you are responsible for proper disposal. It has to be accounted for at any time on demand.
After watching this
Me: alright we’re all ya thermometer