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This article about finding drowned bodies with quicksilver-filled bread says:

A loaf of bread was then filled with “over two ounces of quicksilver,” then thrown into the water

I was annoyed that the original source said this, because I found it unclear. Is that two ounces by weight or by volume? If it were water it wouldn't matter, but quicksilver is 13.6 times as dense, and two fluid ounces weighs nearly a pound. Conversely, a two-ounce weight of quicksilver is only a few milliliters.

I guess it must be the second, smaller amount, because bread stuffed with a pound of quicksilver would sink quickly, and you need it to float to where the body is. Also quicksilver costs money.