Red mercury
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Red mercury is a discredited substance, most likely a hoax perpetrated by con artists who sought to take advantage of gullible buyers on the black market for arms. These con artists described it as a
Crystals of mercury(II) sulfide and several other mercury compounds are deeply colored red, but have no publicly known use in nuclear weapons.
Mercury (element)
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Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is commonly known as quicksilver. A heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the only metallic element that is known to be li
Red mercury
…police in May 1994. This consisted of a complex mixture of elements, including about 10% by weight plutonium, with the remainder consisting of 61% mercury, 11% antimony, 6% oxygen, 2% iodine and 1.6% gallium. The reason why somebody had assembled this complex mixture of chemicals is unknown; equally…
Pouring liquid mercury bionerd
A round pound coin (density ~7.6 g/cm3) floats on mercury due to the buoyancy force upon it and appears to float higher because of the strong surface tension of the mercury.
Native mercury with cinnabar, Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California. Cinnabar sometimes alters to native mercury in the oxidized zone of mercury deposits.
Medical mercury thermometer.