Mercury
By: Payton and Anna
Discovery
Properties
- heavy
- silver-white
- poor conductor of heat
- has a freezing point of -38.83⁰c
- boiling point of 356.73⁰c
uses
- batteries
- flourescent lights
- felt production
- thermometers
- barometers
compounds with mercury
- mercuric chloride
- Mercurous Chloride
- Mercuric sulfide
more about mercury
- Atomic no. 80
- Atomic mass 200.59
- Protons: 80 electrons:80 neutrons: 121
- 2 valence electrons
transition metal
- form colored compounds
- good conductors of heat and electricity
- can be bent easily
- less reactive than alkali metals
- high melting points but mercury (it is a liquid at room temperature)
Mercury (2) sulfide
- HgS + O2 → Hg + SO2
- single replacement
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ritaljhhk7s
- 1:1:1:1
mercury (2) chloride / mercuric chloride
- HgCl2
- ionic
- 25.8 % chlorine; 74.2% mercury
Beautiful poetry about a beautiful element
E-earth made
R-reacts with nonmetals
C-could cause cause brain damage
U-usually a liquid at room temperature
R-really toxic
Y-you shouldn't eat it
Work cited
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TheViralCat007. "Wierdest Chemical Reaction I Have Ever Freaking Seen!!" YouTube. YouTube, 23 June 2012. Web. 04 May 2016.
"The Transition Metals." BBC.co.uk. BBC, n.d. Web. 4 May 2016.
Winter, Mark. "Mercury: Isotope Data." Mercury»isotope Data [WebElements Periodic Table]. Webelements, n.d. Web. 04 May 2016.