What other liquid metals are there that are like mercury?

Treehorn | 23:01 Thu 15th Nov 2012 | Science

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But that aren't poisonous or dangerous and are cheap?

What would happen if you dropped a kilo of mercury into the bath?

Anyone know what large numbers are in roman numerals?

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sherrardk

Why? You seem to have a bit of a mercury thing going on, what do you want it for? Isn't Mercury pretty special in it's unique properties?

DTCwordfan

Liquid gold. Not cheap though

Are you hot?

DTCwordfan

The Tinman's shyte.

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Treehorn

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It seems it's too dangerous to experiment with sherradk.

Dtcrosswordfan i'm male and straight.

MarkRae

Caesium

Treehorn

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Too tired to investigate that one markrae but will tomorrow.

Thank you for all of your help.

DTCwordfan

I'm pleased to hear that - not sure that caesium is fully the answer - mercury is not cheap by the way.

Mojo-Jo-Jo

Gallium.

Mojo-Jo-Jo

This link is better.

denis567

I don't know anything about Gallium but I certainly wouldn't want to handle it with bare hands

Treehorn

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Thank you mojojo, i think it's pretty obvious that Uri Geller used spoons, forks and keys made out of this or a similar metal.

Goodnight all.

New Judge

You should contact your GP immediately as you clearly have an obsession with Mercury. You have posted four questions and three of them relate to Mercury (this one, the microwave query, and the Mercury in the bath conundrum).

I believe you can be referred to a specialist who may be able to help you with this problem.

EDDIE51

Cesium melts at 28 deg C so it's not liquid at normal room temperature.
When I started work in a chemistry lab back in the 1960s we made spoons out of Cesium. We gave them to unsuspecting new starters to stir their coffee or tea, of course the spoon would melt once to was put into the hot tea ( we were careful not to let them actually drink it as Cesium is poisonous)
I worked for months in a lab that had large wooden trays full of Mercury open to the air, we used it for 'solvent casting' to make thin films of organic materials to analyse in the Infra red spectrometer. Mercury and solvent vapor in the same room ! I sometime wonder how we survived those 1960s chem labs.
I think we had every chemical known to science and virtually no safety rules. We dried solvents by dropping Sodium into the bottles, if the water content was too high they were likely to catch fire or explode .

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jake-the-peg

You can't mean you made spoons from caesium metal

this is what happens when that comes into contact with water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umn5YG3RBSM