is a very dense heavy metal

its liquid at room temperature and backed its liquid down to minus 40

degrees

Fahrenheit or Celsius any material with a lighter

density than mercury should float on it as you can see here

not willing to bet that you spent many sleepless nights wondering what

salt table salt and murky would do

when they're interacted together

reporters put a few droplets have mercury in the salt

and Canada's where you would expect the

a surface tension surface area in all their

is enough to support the droplets a mercury the small droplets

we had a little bit more it creates a little puddle

and it still supports it

now all totally saturated pouring in by pounds

which is 2.2 kilograms and

it should be like pouring milk into a beloved Rice Krispies

but it doesn't do that the grains assault should be

floating like courts on the surface of the water but they're

been submerged underneath the mercury doesn't make any sense

remember that's density of salt is one

seventh a better mercury

and now or agitated and we do get some other salt granules turning

to rise to the surface but really with this

major difference in density the

mercury should his be flowing to the bottom in the salt granules shit is

really be floating to the surface but it's just not doing that

taken a lot agitations us to do this

the salt and the mercury never combine together backed everything is still

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