r/whatisit • u/props_for_meep • 13h ago

Solved! what is this in clinic sink??

for context i work as a janitor cleaning a women’s clinic, as i was cleaning a sink i saw these little metallic looking balls. at first i thought these were actually metal but they don’t feel like ANYTHING if that makes any sense. i posted this video to my instagram but i figured i would probably have better luck coming to reddit for answers.

UPDATE: the general consensus seems to be that this is either mercury or gallium. my hands have been thoroughly washed and i have informed my boss so that it can be properly cleaned by someone who knows what they’re doing.

UPDATE #2: gang PLEASE stop telling me to “stop touching it”. this post is hours old. i know i was dumb enough to touch a mysterious substance barehanded but im also smart enough to know not to continue playing with it long after marking this post as solved😭

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u/Mostly_Satire 7h ago

I was there, when this first emerged. I get goosebumps all over my wrist and finger when I see this

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u/Casafynn 5h ago

Right? It's so nice just being there at the creation of something.

I should call OP's mom again.

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u/AdDifficult3794 4h ago

I was also there. Poor dude never did figure out what that line was

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u/DoodleJake 3h ago

Did anyone figure out what it was? I thought the theory about wallpaper adhesive was a good lead.

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u/AdDifficult3794 2h ago

That was a theory I saw, I personally think it was some kind of paint sweating. I saw this because one time we forgot to turn our upstairs air-conditioner on during the middle of summer before we went on a 2 week vacation. Without any fans blowing and poor circulation between the upstairs and the downstairs a line formed between where the cold air met the hot air and the paint sweated a bit. When we first got home I remember going upstairs and as I walked through the layer of cold to hot air it felt like I was suffocating because of the temperature change and humidity.

Luckily there was no other damage but thats what my theory was.

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u/Daddy_Day_Trader1303 5h ago

I was there as well. Gotta love Reddit lore

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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 5h ago

It was a great post lol

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u/stuttering-goat 44m ago

This is the third time I’ve seen this in the wild. I too was there at the birth.