At 21.13 2005.05.02 +1200, you wrote:
>>>"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.

Holes? :P


> Not that you get to see too much accessible Al from inside a modern jetliner.

The secret agents will immobilize or kill you much before you even finish to think to remove some cover. :P

 
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