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- From: jshearer@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Jeff Shearer)
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- Subject: Re: Where do they get mercury from?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.174838.26770@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 17:48:38 GMT
- References: <C16tHx.IDz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <C1AsEC.ACB@techbook.com>
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- In article <C1AsEC.ACB@techbook.com> dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
- >ammg2052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Aaron M. Moy) writes:
- >>
- >> Where do they get liquid mercury from? Where on earth does it
- >> naturally exist and how?
- >
- >As far as I know, mercury doesn't exist in the native state. The
- >mineral cinnabar is the primary source, I think.
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- Bzzzt. Wrong. Ever heard of quicksilver. Quicksilver is naturally
- occurring liquid mercury. You break open the rock and little beads of
- mercury appear all over the broken surface.
-