Mercury is toxic and dangerous, I think.
Sincerely yours,
Masoud Makarchian (Dr)
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Dan Kidger wrote:
> John Dunnicliff wrote:
> >
> > I regret to say - almost certainly nothing, unless you can push it down
> > to well below the piezometric level, with a small diameter steel pipe.
>
> >But one wild possibility - if in impermeable soil, could you add water
> >to well above the stone, then do a falling head permeability test as far
> >as the stone, and extrapolate to equilibrium?
>
> even wilder...
>
> Pour mercury down the standpipe so the stones will float to the surface.
>
> :-)
>
> Yours,
> Daniel
>
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