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Mercury
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.... 's atomic number is 80. It is
superconductive when cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero.
was once known as liquid silver or quicksilver which was studied by the
alchemists. Mercury was first distinguished as an element by the French chemist
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier in his experiment on the composition .... Part 2 of Paper
....y in
the thermometer instead of alcohol was done by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in 1714.
It was also used in vacuum pumps, barometers, and electric rectifiers and
switches. Mercury is used in a mercury-vapor lamps which are used as a source
of ultraviolet rays in homes and for sterilizing water. Mercury-vapor is also
used instead of steam in the boilers of some turbine engines. Mercury is
sometimes used for amalgamation. Amalgamation is a metallurgical process that
utilizes mercury to dissolv.... |
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