Mercury used in a sentence

Mercury in a sentence as a noun

Good times that involved poisonous mercury to boot.

So I take it this is the modern-day equivalent of the mercury delay line?

In the end, they closed him down based on a single reading of slightly elevated mercury levels in his yard.

There's no benefit from eating mercury, for example, but there are always safe exposure levels.

The surrounding area also contains a toxic mercury mine called New Idria.

Most organic mercury compounds are of this sort, and due to their extreme toxicity the safe exposure levels are very low.

"Do you know that if you post a tweet about #mercury and Paul Graham, it will 'mysteriously' disappear from your page within minutes?

In his book he writes that it was very, very clear someone had basically flipped the switch at the DEA and said "shut him down any way you can." The fact that it was the mercury readings in his soil points to the fact they were grasping at straws, especially because they took dozens of soil samples and only one was mildly above normal limits.

If you want to try poisoning yourself with an old fashioned treatment, then mercury -- at one time a treatment for syphillis -- is probably a better bet if only because there are well established chelation protocols for getting it out of your system.