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- From: ves@dms.agames.com (Vincent E. Sartor)
- Subject: Re: Where do they get mercury from?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.013347.14830@dms.agames.com>
- Organization: Atari Games Corp.
- References: <C16tHx.IDz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan21.143928.22474@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:33:47 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.143928.22474@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ckp2n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (C. K. Powell) writes:
- >ammg2052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
- >>
- >> I'm too lazy to go to the library, and I hope someone out there can assist.
- But not lazy enough to waste all our time???
- Try calling the library next time. Most reference librarians, I have dealt with,
- don't mind answering calls, just be nice.
- >> Where do they get liquid mercury from?
- Well when stars go nova, the tremendous temperatures cause all sorts of strange
- stuff to form ( ie all the heavy elements ). Well maybe God just made it.
- >>Where on earth does it naturally exist and how?
- It exists in the Air as a vapor. (This is the most dangerous form to humans )
- Not much in the air normally, only when you have liquid around.
- It exists in the Land and Sea as a liquid.
- Most often it is in a sulphide form, which is commonly called cinnabar, to
- get the pure Mercry cinnabar is heated and the Mercury vapors trapped.
- >
- >Liquid mercury is redundant--mercury is liquid (the only metal
- >that is liquid at normal temperatures). Normal isn't a good word, what is
- normal for me (or us) is very abnormal for many other places and times and things.
- Liquid Mercury is not redundant, like most other elements, they can be liquid, solid,
- or vapor.
-