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Mercury Shouldn't Be Liquid. But It Is.
- Published_at:2024-02-21
- Category:Education
- Channel:SciShow
- tags: SciShow science Hank Green education learn complexly Mercury Shouldn’t Be Liquid. But It Is. reid reimers mercury element periodic table melting point liquid metal transition metal planetary model electrons subshell metallic bonds van der waals forces special relativity
- description: Mercury, a.k.a. quicksilver, is famous for being a liquid at room temperature...and also below room temperature. But you can't use a high school chem class to explain why. Instead, we need a little help from Einstein. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Benjamin Carleski, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, DrakoEsper, Eric Jensen, Friso, Garrett Galloway, Harrison Mills, J. Copen, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kenny Wilson, Kevin Bealer, Kevin Knupp, Lyndsay Brown, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources; https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/grad/601/CM2019/ed068p110.pdf https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/what-does-mercury-being-liquid-at-room-temperature-have-to-do-with-einsteins-theory-of-relativity/ https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/150th-anniversary/ask-me-questions/is-mercury-a-liquid-or-a-metal-and-why https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/relativity-behind-mercurys-liquidity/6297.article https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.201302742 https://www.neonickel.com/technical-resources/general-technical-resources/a-guide-to-metal-melting-points https://www.britannica.com/science/mercury-chemical-element http://mrtremblaycambridge.weebly.com/c8-the-periodic-table--c10-patterns-of-reactivity.html https://uen.pressbooks.pub/introductorychemistry/chapter/the-structure-of-the-atom/ https://www.space.com/bohr-model-atom-structure https://www.britannica.com/science/wave-particle-duality https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-chemistry-beta/x2eef969c74e0d802:atomic-structure-and-properties/x2eef969c74e0d802:atomic-structure-and-electron-configuration https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_Illinois_Springfield/UIS%3A_CHE_124_(Morsch_and_Andrews)/Book%3A_The_Basics_of_GOB_Chemistry_(Ball_et_al.)/02%3A_Elements%2C_Atoms%2C_and_the_Periodic_Table/2.6%3A_Arrangements_of_Electrons https://content.byui.edu/file/a236934c-3c60-4fe9-90aa-d343b3e3a640/1/module2/readings/chemical_bonds.html https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Inorganic_Chemistry/Supplemental_Modules_and_Websites_(Inorganic_Chemistry)/Descriptive_Chemistry/Periodic_Trends_of_Elemental_Properties/Periodic_Trends https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_introductory-chemistry/s14-solids-and-liquids.html https://www.britannica.com/science/transition-metal https://webelements.com/zinc/atoms.html https://webelements.com/cadmium/atoms.html https://webelements.com/mercury/atoms.html https://www.space.com/36273-theory-special-relativity.html https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/336167/why-does-velocity-of-electron-increases-with-increase-atomic-number-in-the-bohr https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/van-der-waals-force https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/thermodynamics-chemistry/internal-energy-sal/a/heat http://chemsite.lsrhs.net/ChemicalBonds/ChemicalBondingAndEnergy.html https://revisionscience.com/a2-level-level-revision/chemistry-level-revision/atomic-structure-bonding-periodicity/shells-and-subshells Images: https://www.gettyimages.com/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qin_shihuangdi_c01s06i06.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:202_Two_Models_of_Atomic_Structure.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atomic-orbital-clouds_spdf_m0.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Single_electron_orbitals_s.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Single_electron_orbitals_p.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Single_electron_orbitals_d.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aufbau_gif.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Single_electron_orbitals_f.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pouring_liquid_mercury_bionerd.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3bodyproblem.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_1921_(cropped).jpg
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