yes, the us puts it in vaccines. and causes neurological problems in children.
1. No, we put a mercury COMPOUND in vaccines (as a preservative), not pure mercury... Chemistry does not work the way you think it does.
H2O is water, H2O2 is poison (which you have a near perfect enzyme called Catalase to breakdown)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalase
CO2 is harmless to humans, CO is deadly.
2. A law firm paid 400K $ to a researcher to publish fake results showing it causing autism. He has since admitted that the results were fake, but claims it was not due to a payoff but in order to boost his reputation; that particular lawfirm paid him for unrelated things, and that this lawfirm used the results to win numerous class action lawsuits is incidental. Numerous researchers around the world tried to replicate his results and every single one of them found the vaccines to be harmless. All the while the mercury compound preservative in vaccines has been banned world wide, resulting in more expensive vaccines with shorter shelf life (which results in people dying from lack of vaccinations).
3. Autism has since been found to be caused by a specific brain defect which has nothing to do with mercury, it is, however, genetic. And the EXACT genes causing it have been identified.
4. Mercury was/is ingested as a "immortality pill" in primitive societies which associate a supernatural attribute to it being a liquid metal at room temperature. Pure mercury will mostly just go in one end and come out the other... in sufficient quantity it will cause severe intestinal irritation (and bleeding) which could kill you though. it needs to be bound in certain digestible compounds to be readily absorbed and cause neurological damage (such as the mercury found in some fish; NOT the mercury found in vaccines). When it IS absorbed, it goes to your nerves, it induces mental instability... causing people to develop schizophrenia (no, not multiple personality disorder), paranoia, and other forms of insanity before finally killing them.
5. Ironically, invalids are still campaigning for parents not to vaccinate their children because "vaccines cause autism" (wrong) even in countries where the mercury based preservatives have been banned for years (which include the USA, China, Canada, Australia, all of europe, etc)...
Check out the MSDS for the effects of PURE mercury:
http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/m1599.htm
Inhalation:
Mercury vapor is highly toxic via this route. Causes severe respiratory tract damage. Symptoms include sore throat, coughing, pain, tightness in chest, breathing difficulties, shortness of breath, headache, muscle weakness, anorexia, gastrointestinal disturbance, ringing in the ear, liver changes, fever, bronchitis and pneumonitis. Can be absorbed through inhalation with symptoms similar to ingestion.
Ingestion:
May cause burning of the mouth and pharynx, abdominal pain, vomiting, corrosive ulceration, bloody diarrhea. May be followed by a rapid and weak pulse, shallow breathing, paleness, exhaustion, tremors and collapse. Delayed death may occur from renal failure. Gastrointenstinal uptake of mercury is less than 5% but its ability to penetrate tissues presents some hazard. Initial symptoms may be thirst, possible abdominal discomfort.
Skin Contact:
Causes irritaton and burns to skin. Symptoms include redness and pain. May cause skin allergy and sensitization. Can be absorbed through the skin with symptoms to parallel ingestion.
Eye Contact:
Causes irritation and burns to eyes. Symptoms include redness, pain, blurred vision; may cause serious and permanent eye damage.
Chronic Exposure:
Chronic exposure through any route can produce central nervous system damage. May cause muscle tremors, personality and behavior changes, memory loss, metallic taste, loosening of the teeth, digestive disorders, skin rashes, brain damage and kidney damage. Can cause skin allergies and accumulate in the body. Repeated skin contact can cause the skin to turn gray in color. A suspected reproductive hazard; may damage the developing fetus and decrease fertility in males and females.
Aggravation of Pre-existing Conditions:
Persons with nervous disorders, or impaired kidney or respiratory function, or a history of allergies or a known sensitization to mercury may be more susceptible to the effects of the substance.
That's exactly what I was thinking. It dries out over the course of 2-3min, so you could apply it to the CPU while it was installed in the socket and then install the heatsink.
thats not a good idea... it will permanently bond that heat-sink and CPU, which is a problem down the line.
If you want to get perfect contact you need to polish it (and make sure its straight)... look up CPU / HSF lapping... if followed carefully you get near perfect heat transference, much better than any TIM... a perfectly lapped CPU/heatsink does not require ANY TIM and might actually get lower performance once TIM is added.
I would say any risks involved in the use/handling of mercury far outweigh any thermal abilities it has.
the risks are far bigger in handling diamond dust... so if you are tempted to make your own diamond TIM (for greater diamond density, for much greater proven performance than off the shelf diamond TIM)... DO NOT DO IT!
Well, let's think about it a moment... lots of enthusiasts feel that thermal compound "goes to crap" after it dries up.
interestingly, I said that a couple of time... people called me out on it asking for a link... not only was I unable to provide one, I was unable to remember the source for said claim except "some guys here on the forums"...
I sent a query to the arctic silver tech support and they replied that no, you do NOT need to reapply the TIM occasionally... as long as you do not remove the CPU (if you do remove it, you need to remove all TIM and apply a fresh coat)
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