>>11569440also dimethylmercury is some scary scary shit. here is some excerpts from a case of exposure:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199806043382305"The patient recalled that in August 1996, while transferring liquid dimethylmercury from a container to a capillary tube, she spilled several drops from the tip of the pipette onto the dorsum of her gloved hand."
"long interval between the date of exposure to mercury and the onset of neurologic symptoms (154days)"
"patient noted tingling in her fingers, brief flashes of light in both eyes, a soft background noise in both ears, and progressive difficulty with speech, walking, hearing, and vision"
"22 days after the first neurologic symptoms developed (and 176 days after exposure), the patient became unresponsive to all visual, verbal, and light-touch stimuli."
"Painful stimuli resulted in limb withdrawal.[...] Her condition appeared to resemble a persistent vegetative state with spontaneous episodes of agitation and crying."
"she died peacefully on June 8, 1997, 298 days after exposure."
"disposable latex gloves do not provide adequate protection against dimethylmercury. Permeation tests showed that several types of disposable latex or polyvinyl chloride gloves (typically, about 0.1 mm thick) had high and maximal rates of permeation by dimethylmercury within 15 seconds"
