1/5/2024 0 Comments Mercury on periodic table![]() ![]() Mercury was also used by several chemists, including Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Joseph Priestley, and Humphry Davy to discover other elements. It was also used by the miners to obtain gold from the New Almaden Mines during the California Gold Rush in 1848. The Spanish conquerors in the Americas obtained cinnabar from the mercury deposits at Huancavelica in Peru to extract gold. Mercury is the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature. As a liquid, the mercury would dissolve gold that could be recovered through distillation of mercury. Mercury is a chemical element of the periodic table with chemical symbol Hg and atomic number 80 with an atomic weight of 200.592 u and is classed as. The two liquid elements at room temperature are mercury (symbol Hg and atomic number 80) and bromine (symbol Br and atomic number 35). ![]() The metal was widely used by the ancient people as a liquid to extract gold from the sediment of rivers. The early humans used cinnabar (mercury sulfide) to decorate the caves in France and Spain with paintings during the Paleolithic era about 30,000 years ago. Who discovered it: The element was probably discovered thousands of years ago and used by the ancient people in India, China, and Egypt, as it has been found in trace amounts in the 3500-year-old Egyptian tombs. Origin of its Name: It is named after ‘Mercury’, the fastest planet in the solar system to revolve around the Sun while its chemical symbol is derived from ‘hydrargyrum’, Greek for “liquid silver” ![]()
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