With respect to leaching
from dental fillings or other amalgams, professor Boyd Haley of the
University of Kentucky (and outspoken critic of the American Dental
Association) told me that if you measure the vapor concentration of
mercury in the mouth of a person with amalgam fillings that it exceeds
the PEL for airborne mercury in the workplace. Food for
thought!
Rob Toreki
On Mar
30, 2009, at 11:57 AM, List Moderator wrote:
I was actually interested in what
that 0.2% "impurity" was that kept the mercury solid at room
temperature. Anybody know? I'm betting that egg-shaped
mercury orb in the pool is way less than 99.8% pure. But
if it's like amalgam dental fillings, maybe very little mercury is
leached out. That would make sense, considering that some of
these things are probably centuries old and still look
new.
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