Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] battery acid? & battery issue follow up

["Norman-Burns" <blackstar01@prodigy.net>]

And to think how many of us have it in their teeth, which in turn leaches
into our bodies.  When I was in the Navy many years ago, I worked for a
while in the ships dental office and I had to mix the mercury with silver
and after it was mixed in the little shaker (like at the paint store) I
would take the amalgam and put it in a piece of cheese clothe and twist it
until most but not all of the silver was squeezed out onto the floor(deck to
you swabies).(the mercury as a binder for the silver flakes)  I don't know
if that has changed. The last time I went to the dentist in the states to
fill a cavity I asked to have the plastic stuff instead.  They wanted an
extra $400.00 for it. I went down to Mexico and got it done for $35.00.  I
don't mean to get off point. but I think what's being said about the dangers
of mercury to ourselves and others as well as the environment is true and
should be heeded. Maybe mercury filling in the teeth were at least part of
the reason why the Navy wouldn't let some one into the submarine service if
they had bad teeth.(at least in the old days).  Also mercury does occur in
nature.  It comes from cinnabar a reddish colored rock. which is found close
to gold and quartz.  Its one of the minerals that come up through the
fissures from the molten lava beneath the earths crust. The miners used to
use it, which is part of the reason it turns up in fish. In my opinion.
Norm