That’s because mercury is still a metal, despite being in liquid form. It’s incredibly dense, you can actually float on mercury and even walk on it if you had something to keep you stable. It may look like should behave like most fluids, but the fluids you come into contact with every day aren’t melted metals. This is just a really neat thing about metals with extremely low melting points.
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u/robo-dragon Dec 15 '24
That’s because mercury is still a metal, despite being in liquid form. It’s incredibly dense, you can actually float on mercury and even walk on it if you had something to keep you stable. It may look like should behave like most fluids, but the fluids you come into contact with every day aren’t melted metals. This is just a really neat thing about metals with extremely low melting points.