Mercury is a poisonous and highly toxic metallic substance that does not change nor evaporate nor can it be destroyed. By its quality, it stays forever. That's the silvery liquid metal we see in thermometers or barometers. Given its nature, if released, it stays permanently in the environment, absorbed by plants like rice and edibles and unto living organisms like fishes or animals. Tragically, it eventually ends up with you and me. The small scale miners handling them are the first "slow victims." Remember that shocking story of the "Minamata Experience" in Japan? It is an example of how children or off springs of one generation exposed to mercury were born like freaks and abnormals. That's how long lasting and deadly it is! Too bad but good to know.
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