7 Dimethyl mercury
It is a dangerous poison which can kill a person by causing severe mental and physical problems. Dimethyl mercury is one of the most toxic forms of mercury. It is also a slow poison where victim knows about the infection only in the final stage. A very small quantity like 0.1 miles enough to kill a person.
In 1996, Karen Wetter Hahn, a chemistry professor in Dartmouth College was experimenting with toxic mercury where she was exposed to it by dropping it on her gloved hand. Dimethyl mercury went through the gloved material and infected her hand but the symptoms did not appear till four months later and ten months after that she died. The toxic entered her skin within 15 seconds of exposure and it was also confirmed that dimethyl mercury can permeate any kind of latex glove.
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