Mercury yay
Mercury, who discovered it? Well, we don't know. Maybe some ancient Egyptian person, but we don't know the exact person. How did they discover it? Well, we wouldn't know! Mostly because we don't know who discovered it! :( What experiments did they do? Well, we don't know who discovered it so I'm just going to recent times. We can measure temperature with mercury, make those dangerous swirly light bulbs, and surround an Egyptian Pharaoh's tomb with it! Yeah, Egyptians did that. Crazy, right? Mercury's Place on the Periodic Table We can find mercury in everyday things, such as a thermometer (not electronic), those swirly lightbulbs, or you could literally buy it off the internet. We can most likely find it as an element. Pictured above is mercury on the Periodic Table. Some common compounds for mercury are Mercury and Oxide (HgO), Mercury and Chloride (Hg2CI2), and some others that would probably take a minute or 2 longer to type an...