Periodic Table · element
Mercury
Hg · Z 80
- atomic number
- 80
- atomic mass
- 200.59
- notation
- Hg
- group
- 12: Zinc
- period
- 6
- state0c
- Liquid
- state20c
- Liquid
- occurrence
- Primordial
- density
- 13.534
- melting pt
- -38.83
- boiling pt
- 357
- discovered
- -1500
- abundance
- 0.085
- bio class
- Not essential
- bio role
- No biological role. Bacteria methylate it into methylmercury, which crosses membranes and accumulates up the food chain.
- ore grade
- 5000
- ore minerals
- cinnabar
- mined as
- Primary
extraction
Cinnabar is roasted in air and the mercury vapour condensed — the oldest metallurgy there is. Almost all primary mining has stopped under the Minamata Convention; supply is recycled and by-product mercury from gold and gas processing.
categories
#Transition Metal#Metal#Volatile Metals
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