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| w | Your
neighbor calls you to say that her child broke |
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thermometer and ate the silvery-grey material |
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| w | You
know the silvery-grey material is mercury, and |
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have heard that pregnant women and children |
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limit consumption of fish because of mercury |
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| contamination. Does this mean that eating the |
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from the thermometer is a serious |
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| N5290, Sept. 27, 2004 |