Completely and totally off-topic and without any merit whatsoever

[Dave Woodman]

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

>I've got some quicksilver that I liberated from some evacuated glass tubes
>by cracking the tips of the tubes and then emptying the contents into a
>container.  Unfortunately, some tiny glass shards got into the container
>and is now mixed in.  How can I filter out the glass shards so they don't
>cut up my esophagus when I drink it?
>
>  
>
Not a nice way to die, with or without glass...

I seem to remember that you could filter it through a thin chamois 
leather, if the 30 years since that particular science teacher haven't 
dulled my memory too much. Can't hurt, I suppose.

    Cheers,

       Dave.