Mercury – SOCS – ‘me’ 
The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Oct. 1, 2022
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Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “me.” Find a word that starts with “me” or use the word “me” as the theme of your post. Have fun!
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Mercury
Several things about Mercury I can think of.
1. The planet
2. The element
3. The character in myth tales
4. Maybe a superhero?
5. That stuff that used to be in thermometers
That’s the one I want to talk about right now. Those old kind of thermometers used to have Mercury inside them. It was sort of liquid, and a pretty silver color. It would rise up the little inside tube to measure how much heat your fever was.
Well, I never knew it was dangerous, until way later on.
Us kids would often break open a glass thermometer to get the cool, pretty Mercury out. Funny stuff it was. It would bead up, and slither around if you pushed it, and you couldn’t pick it up. It wouldn’t dissolve either. I know we used to take our money coins like a dime and somehow coat the coin in the Mercury. It would make it real shiny! We thought it was pretty cool.
Guess it didn’t hurt us or anything, playing with Mercury. At least I don’t think so … hahaha
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