The Quicksilver :: essays research papers

The fickleOne solar day an ancient alchemist was sitting at his and noticed a strangesilvery liquid-like metal. He called several of his colleagues over to admire it.It was passed pull down through the years, this chemical reaction, that formed this"Quicksilver" as the alchemists called it. One day a French chemist AntoineLaurent Lavoisier tested and proclaimed it a metal. And he named it hectogram(Hg). With strong controversy from scientists around the world, Lavoisier wasnever given realization until after his death.. During the late nineteenth centuryand early twentieth is when a significant amount of work went into developing agood role to quicksilver- thermometers. Before commonwealth had been developingthermometers but they were not as close as the ones produced around 1900.     In the later twentieth century people developed a increasing "need" forpure gold and silver. European and American scientists developed a new advancedway fo r this- amalgams. Amalgams are alloys of mercury usually utilize to extractelements from there various ores. Then, erstwhile the common metal is extractedmercury is then separated through distillation.     Without mercury our world would be much different. We would havedifferent, if any, ways of determining temperature. Mercury is also used in clean modern day fluid pools as "Mercury Vapor lamps" for sterilization.Mercury can be used in both reconstructing and destroying life in water waysdepending upon the vigilance people give it. We would have no fast, economicalways of cleaning large pools no fast, economical way of controlling riverclean-ups. Life in our modern day households would be much, much colder because