piclist@ian.org wrote:
>> It's not *that* expensive ($30/oz), especially considering the proposed 
>> use.
>
> Thats still about $400 for 3 fluid oz which is a lot of it to be sure.

Wait, didn't Paul say $1/ml?

1 liquid oz = 29.6 ml, which makes the cost $29.6/oz. Unless Paul made a 
mistake. :)

>  I
> am having a little sucess finding small amounts of it and will just horde
> it until I have enough to do something interesting with.  It gets thrown
> out and taken to disposal sites all the time.  I should just hang out at
> one. "Hey buddy, can you spare a guy some mercury?"

Ian, I now know what you're *really* up to -- you are trying to replicate 
the Michelson-Morley experiment!

"Vibrations were further reduced by building the apparatus on top of a huge 
block of marble, which was then floated in a pool of mercury."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley_experiment

Vitaliy 

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