Mercury Definition and 248 Threads

Messenger has sent back new pictures of Mercury. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/multimedia/index.html The first 4 pictures in the table were relayed back yesterday.

Why is the density of Mercury 40% larger than the density of Mars?

Homework Statement Water is spilled into a mercury manometer that was being attached to a pipe carrying argon. The water has a height of 20 cm in the manometer and the pressure drop across the manometer is 101.3 kPa (mercury on left lower than on the right) What is the difference in height...

Homework Statement At sea level, the pressure of the standard terrestrial atmosphere will support a column of mercury of density 1.359 x 10^4 kg/m^3 and of height 0.7600m at a place where the acceleration due to gravity is 9.80665 m/s^2. Show that 1 atmosphere = 760 mm Hg = 1013hPa. I...

Homework Statement If you have two containers one with water (filled to 10cm) and one with mercury (5cm), how do the pressure of water and mercury compare? p of water = 1 gm/cm^3 p of mercury = 14 gm/cm^3 Homework Equations P = pgh where p is density, and h is height The Attempt...

Many derivations of mercury precession angle per orbit \Delta\Phi, equate this to extra angle per orbit \delta in excess of 2\pi that is \delta = \Delta\Phi But I am getting this relation \sqrt{4\pi\delta}= \Delta\Phi from arc length of helix and circular orbit. What am I doing...

the density of ice(solid) is less than that of water(liquid) and density of mercury(liquid) is more than that of many solids. thinking about it, it seemed natural to me that the more closely are the atoms or molecules packed the greater will be their density. but on packing them closely, isn't...

Just wondering how to analyse mercury in the presence of cobalt by atomic absorption analysis given that both elements emit and absorb radiation at 235.65nm. I know that mercury isj examined using cold vapour atomic absorbtion analysis... but knowing this still doesn't help? Any hints would...

Hi, While designing a high RPM generator i need some information on mercury seal. Actually i want to establish contact between rotor(25k to 30k RPM) and stator. Anybody can suggest me any other alternatives.

NASA's Messenger probe sent back it's first pictures: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080116-messenger-mercury-images.html

mercury tilt switch? hi...is mercury switch available in stores and can be easily found?? also is there some circuit that functions same as the mercury switch?

Homework Statement You have a "U-shaped" container with a valve at the bottom of a negligible volume tube. The left side is filled with water and the right side is filled with mercury. The valve is opened and since the two are immiscible there is a fluid level differentiation. Determine the...

Still being so close to the sun, what prevents the planet Mercury from vaporizing away?

Hey everyone, I have a question about lead and mercury poisoning in the human body. What actually happens in the human body that causes lead and mercury to be poisonous? Thanks!

Homework Statement A laboratory centrifuge on Earth makes n rpm (rev/min) and produces an acceleration of 5.90 g at its outer end. a. What is the acceleration (in g's) at a point halfway out to the end b. The centrifuge is now used in a space capsule on the planet mercury, where gmercury...

hey, i need some help with a project i am working on. what i am trying to do is take a full size car and turn it into a RC car. however, inorder to keep the car street legal, i need to keep all the controls operable by a person. i am using only off the shelf parts and servos that you can...

Why the mercury in glass-laboratory thermometer doesn't stick to glass?

Today I was looking around in the local hardware store in the electrical section for some lighting. I have a small building (20 x 30) that I want to light. In the cold months of the year it is not likely it will be heated very warm and florescent lighting is out of the question because of...

I really honestly believe that I worked this out correctly, and explained my logic.. but I just wanted to have this checked to be on the safe side. Thanks a lot for helping, I appreciate the time everyone puts into reading this ^^;; Homework Statement Mercury is poured into a U tube in...

Mecury has a boiling point of -39 centigrade but is relatively dense with 80 protons. It has 2 valence electrons like all the other transition metals but why does it have the strange property of being a liquid at room temperture?

Ok, Air flows through this tube at a rate of 1200 cm^3/s. Assume that air is an ideal fluid. What is the height h of mercury in the right side of the U-tube? Here's a picture: http://session.masteringphysics.com/problemAsset/1001181/6/knight_Figure_15_64.jpg First, I found the velocity of...

Boiling points of alcohol and mercury?? who can tell me the boiling point of alcohol and mercury??

https://www.physicsforums.com/blog/2006/11/06/transit-of-mercury-2006/ Anyone planning to take pictures?

A Venturi device has a diameter of 4mm at one end and a diameter of 2cm at the other. Air enters at 1200cm^3/m. Mercury is in the botom of the device. Assuming mercury's density to be 13700kg/m^3, and air's density to be 1.2kg/m^3, find how high the mercury rises. Assume air to be an ideal...

A U-shaped tube, open to the air on both ends, contains mercury. Water is poured into the left arm until the water column is 20.0 cm deep. How far upward from its initial position does the mercury in the right arm rise? So far, this is my work: Using pressure = density(water) x g x...

What is the pressure of a 10 cm high column of mercury (ρ = 13,6 g/cm^3) in hPa? i know that the formula is Pressure=pgh so i subs in 13.6g/cm^3 (9.81m/s^2) (10cm). may i know what is the g in 13.6g/cm^3 belongs to?? is it equals to 9.81m/s^2?? and also what is hPa??i know Pa is pascal...

The diagram shows some of the energy levels of an electron in a mercury atom. Level Q represents the lowest possible energy level. (a)Explain why a line spectrum results from an atom with such energy levels. (b) Calculate the energy change in joules when the electron moves from level...

Sir, The question is as follows: If excitation energy is provided by inelastic collisions between molecules, what is the temperature at which mercury vapour lamp will emit Ultra violet light of wavelength 2586 Angstrom? I tried applying Wein's displacement law(lamda * T =...

Howdy. I'm looking at a mercury battery reaction which goes like so: HgO(l) + Zn(s) --> ZnO(s) + Hg(l) I need to figure out the oxidation half reaction. What I can tell so far is that Zn is oxidized, since on the reactant side it has a charge of zero, and on the product side, Zn has an...

A mercury barometer reads 700.0 mm on the roof of a building and 715 mm on the ground. Assuming a constant value of 1.29 kg/m3 for the density of air, determine the height of the building. . My setup was finding the difference in the pressures for mercury and get 15 mm Hg Then use Hg density...

Does the temperature of the mercury affects the height of the mercury column in a barometer?

Ok I got this problem here... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/Veto1024/mercury.jpg How is this possible?! If its pushing the mercury down the tube and back up into the atmosphere, the pressure has to be greater then 1atm yet the answer ends up being less then 1 atm inside the...

I need help with a problem I have struggled with for several days. Here is the problem: The specific heat of mercury is .03 cal/g degrees C, and it's boiling point is 357 degrees C. The specific heat of water is 1 cal/g degrees C. It takes 65 calories of energy to vaporize one gram of...

Hi, I'm trying to write an equation to show what happens when mercury liquid (Hg) is placed on a block of aluminium (Al). But I'm having some problems. Here's my current line of thinking (I haven't yet worked out any subscripts so I will just use the atomic symbols): Al has an aluminium...

I have tried this question 6 times (getting the same answer more than once) and am still not getting the correct answer. I think I need some help understanding where I'm going wrong. The question: A container is filled to the brim with 1.35 L of mercury at 20°C. When the temperature of...

Mercury can form Hg2+2 and Hg+2 ions. Why does mercury form Hg2+2? Are there any other "diatomic ions" like this? I assume this has to do with atomic size, but why don't zinc and cadmium behave like this? They only form Zn+2 and Cd+2.

Gauge pressure question - please help I came across this multiple choice question while revising for my exams but I can't get any of the chioces. I've spent over an hour on this but can't figure out. Can someone please help me because it's starting to annoy me. What is the gauge pressure at...

Today in Chemistry my teacher was talking about Mercury, and said that it was bad because your thoughts and nerve-impulses are electrical, and that if you have a lot of spare metal floating around your body the signals get all messed up. I asked "What about Iron, that's a critical component of...

Hello, I need advice about how to treat spilled mercury. A friend of mine is going to do an experiment about barometers, and she needs some mercury. I am worried about any accident. As you know, mercury vapors are very toxic for nervous system. Any advice is welcomed. I will immediately do a...

Can anybody tell me what is the spin of Mercury, is it 3/2 or 1/2, and why? - 3/2 = sidereal orbit period (87.969 days) / sidereal rotation period (1407.6 hrs) - 1/2 = tropical orbit period (87.968 days) / length of day (4222.6 hrs) Data are from NASA, planetary fact sheets.

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Does anyone know why Mercury and our Moon do not spin?

If I cut a ball of mercury with a knife it forms into other balls why is this

"There is a lit candle in an elevator mounted on a bracket attached to the middle of one wall (say, 2" from the wall). A drop of mercury is on the floor. The cable snaps and the elevator falls. What happens to the candle and the mercury?" From...

Does Mercury have properties that would permit its' use as a Fuel to power Spacecraft? Has this been done before or experimented with? If it is heated to its' vaporization point, what happens? I know it is highly poisonous but I have heard that it has a potential for use as "a" fuel.

How to find out the mass of Mercury & Venus

The length of the mercury coloumn in a mercury thermometer is 5cm when the bulb is immersed in water at the triple point (273.16k). What is the temperature if it reads 6.0cm? What will the length of coloum be if immersed in boiling water (at steam point)? I'm new to this forum, but would...

At 20 C degrees the surface tension for water is 73 dyn/cm and mercury is 470 dyn/cm how do I find this value in SI units? part 2 a small capillary tube of 1mm diameter is placed into a container of 20 degree C will the level of the water in the tube move above or below the level of the...