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mercury liquid found at another pyramid in Mexico

Posted by johnpe1 9 years ago to History
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three other excavations have had Hg (mercury)
which may mark the tombs of kings. -- j

SOURCE URL: http://www.inquisitr.com/2042394/liquid-mercury-found-under-pyramid-at-teotihuacan-could-indicate-royal-tomb/

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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 9 years ago
    Interesting. I don't think the ancients were as stupid as some think they were. Their engineering skills have sure passed the test of time.
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    • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 1 month ago
      The more we discover about the ancient civilizations. The realization that almost everything that we have been taught about history and time line of early civilizations is false and much important information is kept from us.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years ago
    I hold off accepting the suggestion that the mercury was there just because it was shiny. This statement comes perilously close to the traditional label of 'religious artifact' that used to be stuck onto any archeological find we did not understand.

    I am interested in seeing what such finds ultimately show - perhaps that will give us a hint as to its use.

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 9 years ago
    The story says, "caustic effects of the liquid mercury." That phrase is a bit off target.

    Perhaps the writer discovered that mercury is used in one of the processes for making sodium hydroxide, also known as lye or caustic soda.

    Anyone old enough to have handled liquid mercury knows it's "mostly harmless," as long as you ignore inhalation of the vapor or ingestion of compounds. (Don't try this at home, kids. Don't try it anywhere. Don't recommend it, even to your worst enemies.)

    Mercuric chloride, HgCl2, is called "corrosive sublimate" and is dangerous. Dimethyl mercury, Hg(CH3)2, is extremely toxic.

    Years ago when I worked at a museum in Boston there was some Hg that was handled without much caution. No one thought it worth bothering about. I checked with MIT's health-and-safety officer to get better info, which I gave to the museum staff.

    The dangers to those working at the pyramid are from inhalation. See Wikipedia's article on Hg poisoning for more info.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years ago
    According to the History Channel, mercury was somehow a component of a power source. I still don't get how those so-called primitive people moved those huge multi-ton hunks of stone around and then cut them in perfectly straight lines as in Puma Punku in Central America.
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    • Posted by $ nickursis 9 years ago
      It is a scientific supposition that if you rotate mercury fast enough, it will generate a counter gravity. The germans supposedly used that fact in WW2 to make their weird bell shaped "flying saucer". A lot of the UFO theories today say that is is what the "black" programs use today. Mercury in and of itself has a lot of really weird properties

      http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/06/th...

      You Tube:
      https://youtu.be/CluKAHg2lUw

      http://www.gravitycontrol.org/projectuni...

      Not being a physicist I can't say yea or nay, but it sort of might be a reason why someone would have a bunch of mercury. Or they just thought it was cool to roll around...
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      • Posted by johnpe1 9 years ago
        I'm not a physicist either, but could sure use some
        anti-grav to make up for this 50 lbs I've gained
        over the past decade!!! -- j

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        • Posted by plusaf 8 years, 12 months ago
          Cut down carbs. Chew every mouthful about 30 times before swallowing. Don't drink anything during meals or for 30-45 minutes Before OR After meals.
          I lost about 65 pounds in about 8-10 months doing that. Bariatric surgery AFTER that helped me lose the rest of a total of about 130 pounds.
          Enjoy!
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          • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 12 months ago
            WoW! . I am impressed. . making a note here in
            the fat file....... -- Thank You! -- j

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            • Posted by plusaf 8 years, 12 months ago
              Well, if you're serious, enjoy! Nobody pays (or paid) me to write that, but twice a month, I go as a 'mentor' to a meeting of 'pre-op' folks preparing for their surgery... folks that make you and me look positively tiny; some who can barely walk or stand without help.

              One of the cool things I discovered is that, if you're ready to make that kind of change, it's not as hard as a lot of people think, and, having tried and failed (long-term) at every diet or special food supplement I ever signed up for, I knew that something 'drastic' had to be done... by me, for me...
              My 'breaking point was reached when my second knee started getting arthritic pains and I couldn't even hike up to the second floor of my house without 'getting winded.'

              It's quoted somewhere that 'every pound of excess weight you lose takes about FIVE pounds of stress off your knees!'

              Do the math. I lost 170 pounds and now weigh about 175 (as of this morning.) I've taken four or five times the stress OFF my knees AS I weigh today! No more knee pain; no more huffing and puffing.

              Find something that works for you and when you're ready, you'll do it.

              And you don't need Mooooochelle's help, either.
              :)
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        • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 12 months ago
          Uh, ever seen Dune? Baron Harkonnen had the deal...Maybe you are not quite there...but...maybe something to think about. However, keeping a bunch of mercury or mercury plasma contained around you might be a bit dicey at this point
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years ago
    Aw that's nothin'. There are fields like that in China where they have the peasants conduct e-waste work. (sorry, my sick sense of humor)
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years ago
    One of the interesting tales about what the Chinese government may find, eventually, in their laborious excavation of the tomb of the first emperor, is a model of the emperor's original vision for the royal city, with a river of mercury (chosen because it wouldn't evaporate). After their find of the terra cotta army, this wouldn't surprise me.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years ago
    A mercury boundary would certainly prevent graverobbers from disturbing the dead!
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    • Posted by khalling 9 years ago
      would they have understood it was toxic? the article said that mercury would have been difficult for them to mine and its reflective quality they associated with the supernatural. I think they said it was likely a symbol for a super natural river like Styx. now you get a song
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5MAg_yW...
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      • Posted by xthinker88 9 years ago
        I don't think they would have. The alchemists in Europe used it and handled it all the time and did not understand its toxicity. I seem to remember playing with it in science class in school on a table top. So I think fully understanding the toxicity is a pretty recent thing. If it weren't so toxic - it's a pretty cool substance to play with. :)
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        • Posted by NealS 9 years ago
          I played with it as a teen, we used it to shine up our dimes. Later we used it to extract fine particles of gold. Then all of a sudden it became toxic. Perhaps that's why some people tell me I'm crazy.
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          • Posted by Flootus5 9 years ago
            Amalgamation with Mercury was a common method of recovering gold from ores before the perfection and use of cyanide for recovery. The use in the process of a mercury retort then vaporized the mercury to separate the gold. These mercury vapors was where it got really toxic. Improperly handled retorts got a lot of people sick, the symptoms which include going a bit crazed in the head. As in the Mad Hatter whose hats had mercury in the brim slowly absorbing into the skin.

            I ran into a half crazed old prospector in the Arizona desert who pulled a shotgun on me right in the county road. The guy was a nut, there was no rationalizing with the guy. I learned later from some other nearby miners that the guy used the mercury amalgamation/potato skin method for recovering his gold over the campfire. Extremely toxic.
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        • Posted by PeterAsher 9 years ago
          Yeah: In grade school in the 40’s, the teacher demonstrated the specific gravity of it by floating brass gram weights in it. Then he let us rub some over quarters with our bare fingers to make them shiny
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      • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years ago
        They could have understood Hg's toxicity by "trial and error" (pun intended). As for Styx, you are hitting on another of my favorite bands. First Rich with The Doors and now Styx. The comparison with the river Styx is a correct one. I have watched a couple of History Channel or H2 episodes on Mayan temples. Underground toxic rivers were discussed.
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