MERCURY vs SALT - Defies ALL LOGIC

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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