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In article , "Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:

Mercury weights 156 pounds a gallon. Someone dumped two gallons by the road
a few miles south of me. You can imagine the excitement that generated.


Mercury's dense, but not quite *that* dense.

13.6 kg/l * 3.78 l/gal * 2.2 lb/kg = 113 lb/gal

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It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.