AP Chem Mercury Comic Strip
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- Wat dis?
- Mercury was first discovered in the form of mercury sulfide 30,000 years ago.
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- Wooaahh
- The earliest use of mercury sulfide was as a paint for cave drawings in Spain and France.
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- The first method of acquiring mercury...
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- It's working!
- Mercury can be acquired from compounds of metals, usually mercury sulfide, via heating.
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- So heavy...
- Mercury is a very dense metal and is one of few elements that is liquid at room temperature.
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- Lemme see that!
- Europe mainly got its mercury from deposits in Spain, but Spanishconquistadors later found large deposits in Peru.
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- It does dissolve gold!!!
- The most important use of mercury for much time was to extract gold from metal compounds and sediment by dissolving it in mercury and then distilling the mercury off.
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- I don't know if I would---
- At one point, the ancient Chinese even believed in the magical properties of mercury.
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- Mercury can be acquired from compounds of metals, usually mercury sulfide, via heating.
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- It look cool
- You can paint with it!
- Fire!
- And dense...
- Like us!
- Hey, that's ours!
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