Did you not watch the video? Mercury vapor being released. Toxic period.

Your logic is flawed. Drinking water H2O that is your comparison?

The element mercury is a liquid metal with a vapor pressure of 0.00185 mm at 25 degrees C. This corresponds to a saturation concentration in air of 20 milligrams of mercury per cubic meter of air or 2.4 ppm . The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists has established a threshold limit for mercury vapor of 0.05 milligrams of Hg per cubic meter of air for continuous 40 hour per week exposure. Long term chronic exposure to mercury vapor in excess of 0.05 mg Hg per cubic meter of air may result in cumulative poisoning. The use of mercury in laboratory amounts in well-ventilated areas is fairly safe; however, mercury can present a health hazard under the following circumstances:

Originally posted by SteveR

Originally posted by Realtruth
Mercury is mercury. It matters not what form it is in. Mercury is toxic.

Is drinking water like drinking hydrogen?

Think about it.

silver-colored dental fillings (amalgams) contain about 40-50 percent elemental mercury.

Historically, dentists mixed elemental mercury with amalgam in the dental office to prepare amalgam for use as cavity filler. During the mixing process, excess mercury could easily be spilled exposing the dentist, dental assistants and patients to mercury. This practice has now been replaced by the process of using specifically measured pre-encapsulated capsules of dental amalgam that are mixed by the dentist just prior to filling a cavity. This is much more efficient, uses a specified amount of mercury, eliminates the need for storing and using additional elemental mercury by the dentist and reduces the potential for mercury spills and mercury exposure.

Originally posted by SteveR
You're not getting the basic chemistry here. Alamgam contains mercury for sure, but it is NOT elemental mercury, it has made up a different compound and this behaves in an entirely different manner.



[edit on 4-2-2007 by Realtruth]

Mercury in any form is toxic. The difference lies in how it is absorbed, the clinical signs and symptoms, and the response to treatment modalities. Mercury poisoning can result from vapor inhalation, ingestion, injection, or absorption through the skin.

Neurologic, gastrointestinal, and renal systems are the most commonly affected organ systems in mercury exposure.

* Organic mercury - Most devastating to the CNS

o Short-chained (methylmercury) - Affects the CNS

o Long-chained - Subacute/chronic effects similar to that of inorganic mercury exposure

* Elemental mercury - Primary neurologic toxicity

* Inorganic mercury salts

o Acute - Severe corrosive gastroenteritis, acute tubular necrosis

o Subacute or chronic - GI, neurologic, and renal dysfunction

Originally posted by WyrdeOne
Mercury is not just mercury - the toxicity (and along the same lines, the ability of our bodies to metabolize it) varies depending on what form it takes.

The big difference that I'm aware of is between ethyl and methyl mercury.

I had to do some reading on the subject for a debate about vaccine toxicity, and we've had a number of discussions on the subject here at ATS over the last couple of years.

A quick search should turn something up.

Long story short, methyl mercury (the sort that we hear about in tuna and other fish, and industrial exposure horror stories) is not easily metabolized by the body. It builds up and results in all kinds of problems.

Ethyl Mercury, on the other hand, appears to be much more easily eliminated from the human body, and doesn't pose the same risk.

I don't know what sort of mercury is in fillings, but I thought I'd post the information in response to your comment 'mercury is mercury' - that's not quite true.