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- From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
- Subject: Re: Walk on Mercury?
- Message-ID: <b2pm5=-.noring@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 18:13:48 GMT
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- In article dubuf@sicsun.epfl.ch (Hans DU BUF) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul29.144611.23703@access.usask.ca>, goldie@herald.usask.ca (Hugh Goldie) writes:
- >|> I hope this is a new question --I haven't been on the net long. I heard this
- >|> on a local radio station, but have not heard a good answer yet:
- >|>
- >|> If your swimming pool was filled with mercury, could you walk on it? (What
- >|> would happen if you tried it?)
- >
- >I guess that walking upright would be impossible because you can't maintain
- >your balance.
- >Apart from that, mercury is a normal but heavy fluid so you might sink
- >up to your ankles or a bit further.
- >It would be very difficult to drown, but before starting to experiment I
- >advise you to put on a hermetically closed diving suit.
-
-
- In a National Geographic magazine article from a while ago which described
- the mercury industry in Spain, they showed a picture of a man sitting on
- top of a large vat of mercury (don't do this at home :^) ). As expected,
- most of his body was above the surface. I'm sure some mercury got stuck
- into his clothes (I think they were factory clothes which were removed
- before going home).
-
- Jon
-
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