MERCURY vs SALT - Defies ALL LOGIC

Hello this is Jeff of TAOFLEDERMAUS Mercury is a very dense heavy metal It is liquid at room temperature. In fact, it remains a liquid down to minus 40 deg. F/C ANY material with a lighter density should float on it as you can see. I am willing to bet that you have spent many sleepless nights wondering what what table SALT and mercury would do if they when they were interacted. together First, we will put a few drops of mercury in the salt It kind of does what you would expect The surface tension - the surface area is enough to support the droplets of mercury We add a bit more, it creates a small puddle and it still supports it. Now we will totally saturate it pouring in 5lbs (2.2k) of mercury and it SHOULD

Channel: TAOFLEDERMAUS

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Keywords: Mercury (Chemical Element), salt, mindblow, logic, Physics (Field Of Study), science

Id: tA9tqvfWQ7I

Length: 2min 57sec (177 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 09 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/11teensteve]

with a high surface tension the mercury has a hard time "running through" the salt. same would probably happen with sand. $.02

[u/fredbnh]

Alternate title: Idiot does junk science with a highly toxic substance that can easily render entire neighborhoods uninhabitable...again.