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  2. From: jones@cs.sfu.ca (John Jones)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: Liquid metals
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan12.165810.12426@cs.sfu.ca>
  6. Date: 12 Jan 93 16:58:10 GMT
  7. Distribution: sci.physics, sci.chem
  8. Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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  11. Why is mercury a liquid, while its neighbours in the periodic table
  12. are high-melting-point solids?  A simple answer might be that the
  13. interatomic bonds in mercury are unusually weak, but then what is
  14. responsible for the weakness of these bonds?
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