Will Brexit lead to the abandonment of Crossrail2 and TurningSouth London Orange?
On 19/07/2016 11:02, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:25:58 on Tue, 19 Jul
2016, tim... remarked:
It's every much the same sort of thing: banning a commodity because
it's harmful/unethical or whatever.
There is a mile of difference between unethical and harmful,
especially when in normal use the item isn't harmful at all, it's
only harmful if it's abused.
Ivory hunting is harmful to elephants.
I was referring to the mercury instrument (I thought that was bleeding
obvious)
The problem with mercury is that even if not "abused" (whatever that
means) it has a tendency to get split, and when it does the tiny
droplets run everywhere and are very difficult to clean up.
I can remember playing with blobs of mercury when I was a kid, great fun
chasing them round the table....
Colin
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