WANTED: Mercury
Toxic Heavy Metal
Wanted For:
-Being the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature.
-Although it is toxic, Mercury has been considered helpful in medicine through out history.
-It is not allowed on aircraft because of how it combines with aluminium
-Does not react with most acids
-poor conductor of heat
Aliases
-water-silver
-Hg
-hydragyrum
-- The modern element symbol for mercury is Hg, which is the symbol for another name for mercury: hydrargyrum. Hydrargyrum comes from Greek words for "water-silver".
-quicksilver
Description:
Color - dark grey
Atomic Mass - 200.59 u ± 0.02 u
Atomic Number - 80
Metal or Non-metal - metal
Appearance at room temp. - silver liquid
First Arresting Officer:
Found and used by the Chinese and Hindus and found in Egyptian tombs.
Report of first arrest:
-Arrested in 1500 BC
-How it was arrested: N/A
Last Seen:
Group number - 12
Period number - 6
Seen mostly in Spain and Italy
Known Associates:
ISN'T REACTIVE