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The scientists ruled out the possibility that microbes were behind the act: In lab tests simulating the seafloor, the researchers killed off any organisms in the water with mercury chloride.
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Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2024
In lab tests that reproduced conditions on the seafloor in the new study, the researchers poisoned the seawater with mercury chloride to kill off microbes.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 22 July 2024
Because of an outsized fear of germs, doctors shaved women’s pubic hair, scrubbed their heads with kerosene, cleaned their nipples and stomachs with ether, and douched them with saline and either whiskey or mercury chloride.
—Allison Yarrow, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 May 2018
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Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2024
In lab tests that reproduced conditions on the seafloor in the new study, the researchers poisoned the seawater with mercury chloride to kill off microbes.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 22 July 2024
Because of an outsized fear of germs, doctors shaved women’s pubic hair, scrubbed their heads with kerosene, cleaned their nipples and stomachs with ether, and douched them with saline and either whiskey or mercury chloride.
—Allison Yarrow, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 May 2018
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“Mercury chloride.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mercury%20chloride. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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