Organic Mercury is a whole different type of mercury than the stuff found in old thermometers or used in gold mining. Organic mercury is often referred to as Methyl-mercury and it will go through your skin and kill you. Standard mercury isn't good to mess with, but really takes a significant amount of exposure to do any damage.
One type of organic mercury is methyl mercury. Diethyl mercury will screw you up too.
Gotta learn chemistry nomenclature.
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