>>"Worldwide", Mercury is certainly
>>banned from aircraft.  Place a drop
>>of it on a piece of Aluminium to see why  :-)

> What happens exactly? I don't have any mercury at home. :D

Functionally Mercury dissolves Aluminium. They form an amalgam (which 
is just a fancy name for something nicely mixed with Mercury). 
Throwing globs of mercury onto Alumin(i)um could have unpredictable 
results. Not that you get to see too much accessible Al from inside a 
modern jetliner.


        RM

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