experiments with the liquid metal mercury II

superconducting... creating an amalgam... vibrating mercury... frozen mercury... it's all here, so check it out! :-)

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Science & Technology

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• mercury
• quicksilver
• quecksilber
• experiment
• science
• laboratory
• conduction
• superconductor
• liquid
• metal
• gallium
• amalgam
• Hg

[Zakerandsaisu]

If you pour mercury on sand or some sort of powder, will it clump up or will it slide off frictionlessly?

[bionerd23]

@Zakerandsaisu

the latter. :)

[333irani333]

fun fact: the mercury and gallium mixture you made (amalgam) is what dentists use as your fillings

[bionerd23]

@333irani333

no it's not. dentists use COPPER amalgams, not gallium amalgams. :)

[EasyLinux]

It's a shame it's toxic.. It looks so fun!

[smtcookiemons]

you know if you want this stuff if you have an old thermostat (ac stat) there is a small tube of it inside a glass container

[LinkYaman]

hey 240p! its been awhile...

[TelluriumLabs]

uhgg i hate gallium, it stains literally everything it touches and when it gets wet it rusts just like iron, and i found out the hard way that gallium expands as it cools. mercury is much better to play with

[JaHelmut]

Mercury is the most toxic element.It is constantly vaporizing deadly fumes,if u breathe enough amount,u die.Some lost balls in your room does the job right too.Have fun

[wesenergyyoung]

wow the villain of Terminator 2 ....? hehehe

[spiderwebmail]

I live in Brazil in a city called Goiania. We had an accident with Cesium137 decades ago. A junk yard owner got an old X-ray machine from a Hospital and found small balls of radioactive Cs-137 inside.

Unaware of the danger, he played with then (as they glow in the dark), and even gave them to his family and friends.

Because it was BEAUTIFUL everyone played them for some time. Weeks later, the radiation was discovered... dozen of them died...

Do not play with stuff just because it is beautful!!!

[jocika99]

I've need mercury:D

[guihp2]

my thermometer is broken so i have some mercury at home, anybody here knows where do i can buy more?

[gronki1]

Is mercury actually a superconductor, or just a very good conductor (as any metal in low temperature)?

[samkodiak1]

from what i notice about mercury, is other metal objects won't go through it when you mix it in the little glas dish. Whatever those hard steel or whatever pellets you put in with the mercury. They didn't just fall through it, rather then rolled off of it. That's interesting.