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 and read. 

Here's a drawing of the Atomic Structure for Mercury:

Shiny Mercury Droplets

Mercury is a part of the "Liquid" Section in the periodic table in our classroom. Funny, because Mercury is a metal! It's a liquid metal, hence it's other name, quicksilver. So, yeah. That's all.