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Article #1699Liquid Metals
From: John Jones
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:00
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:00
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Why is mercury a liquid, while its neighbours in the periodic table are high-melting-point solids? A simple answer might be that the interatomic bonds in mercury are unusually weak, but then what is responsible for the weakness of these bonds?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!olivea!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!uw-beaver!cs.ubc.ca!fornax!jones From: jones@cs.sfu.ca (John Jones) Newsgroups: sci.chem Subject: Liquid Metals Keywords: bonding, liquid metals Message-ID: <1993Jan12.170015.12539@cs.sfu.ca> Date: 12 Jan 93 17:00:15 GMT Distribution: sci.chem Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada Lines: 4