Science Space FYCF Blog #2

Let’s talk about: Mercury at Science Space

Remember how it’s the International Year of the Periodic Table? Well, we’re looking at a different element each month, and this next one’s a killer! January was devoted to one we’d be super dead without (Carbon). In February, we are investigating an element that definitely has the opposite effect on living things; Mercury.

Mercury is an element notorious for being on the deadlier side of poisonous. I’ve always found it fascinating – from playing with it in the sink after breaking a thermometer to learning about its devastating environmental impacts at University.

We’ve known about Mercury for a very long time. Samples of it have even been found in the pyramids in Egypt! It’s always been special;  one of only two elements on the periodic table that are liquids at room temperature.

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