Re: What else is there to drink?
From: Helge Moulding (hmoulding_at_excite.com)
Date: 07/09/04
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Date: 9 Jul 2004 12:27:50 -0700
Bernhard Kuemel wrote,
> Tristan Miller wrote:
> > Besides water and D2O, are there any chemical compounds that are
> > liquid at room temperature and can be orally consumed by humans
> > in undiluted macroscopic quantities (say, 250 mL at once) without
> > seriously ill effects?
> [...] There's that rumor that drinking mercury is rather harmless,
I wonder. Even if Hg remained chemically inert in its journey through
the GI tract, and didn't get absorbed in any noticable (i.e. harmful)
quantities (which I seriously doubt in defiance of the rumors), 250 ml
is fairly massive. Just its weight alone might do some damage. It's
more than 13 times as dense as water, and a quarter liter (about a cup
of the stuff for us USAns) would weigh in at almost seven pounds. Just
the mechanics of moving that through the gut might be a problem, never
mind how it's going to pull on the intestines.
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