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