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Broke a thermometer in cooking oil while cooking, ate food
Enthalpy:
If it happened 15 years ago and you're alive, obviously the exposure wasn't so bad. Given the scenario you relate, the metal was more probably Ga-In-Sn.
Besides ingestion, a potential exposure route was inhalation of the vapour, more so if the metal was hot in the pan. This would be significant with mercury (0.01atm vapour pressure at 170°C), rather not with gallium and indium.
Gallium and indium are little harmful by themselves, but their compounds can be, and in a hot pan they would make products little predictable.
Mercury is toxic in itself. The symptoms are vague, so they bring a big risk of believing to observe them without reason
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning
legomyrego:
--- Quote from: Enthalpy on September 12, 2019, 06:32:54 PM ---If it happened 15 years ago and you're alive, obviously the exposure wasn't so bad. Given the scenario you relate, the metal was more probably Ga-In-Sn.
Besides ingestion, a potential exposure route was inhalation of the vapour, more so if the metal was hot in the pan. This would be significant with mercury (0.01atm vapour pressure at 170°C), rather not with gallium and indium.
Gallium and indium are little harmful by themselves, but their compounds can be, and in a hot pan they would make products little predictable.
Mercury is toxic in itself. The symptoms are vague, so they bring a big risk of believing to observe them without reason
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning
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thank you so much for the answers!
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