It will sink in water, but it will float in mercury. Depends on what the liquid is.
No
Mercury is an element itself, like nickel, gold, iron etc.
yes iron does float in water yes iron does float in water
Mercury is a liquid metal.
Solid iron will float in liquid mercury. In most liquids it will sink.
No.
Lead floats in mercury.
It will sink in water, but it will float in mercury. Depends on what the liquid is.
Water floats when it is turned into ice, because in this form it is less dense (it crystallizes, and the structure expands). It also can float in combinations of liquids, for example, it is less dense than liquid mercury, but more dense than oil, so it would 'float' on the mercury. Liquid mercury is very dense, and doesn't usually float on things.
Solid iron will float in liquid Mercury. In most liquids it will sink.
Mercury is the only one of the four metals that's a liquid at room temperature. The others are solids.
no, because mercury can be able to burn things, so when wood goes into liquid mercury, it would most likely melt or "crash and burn."answ2. The above is not correct. Balsa wood would float easily on the surface of mercury. Mercury is a toxic and dangerous material, but it does not of itself provoke combustion.
It can float, in a given quantity of the (liquid at room temperature metal) mercury. This is because mercury is denser than any pebble, stone, likely to be found on earth surface. Floating is the condition or state of bouyancy in a liquid. So a stone is to mercury as a cork is to water.
For an obect to be able to float in a liquid it has to weigh less (have less mass) than the weight (mass) of the liquid displaced by the object, so low density objects weigh little with respect to their size (volume) and the volume of the amount of liquid displaced. English corrected by GregorS This applies between any viscous media so a gas such as Helium will float above a heavier gas such as Nitrogen and Hydrogen will float above Helium. likewise a low density liquid oil will float above a heavier density liquid such as water which in turn will float above a denser liquid such as mercury. B.T.W mercury is so dense that metals such as iron, copper and many other "heavy" materials will float on on the mercury.
A block of aluminum will float on a pool of mercury at nearly any temperature (except at extremely elevated temperatures (above 350 °C) where mercury is no longer liquid) The density of aluminum is 2.70 grams per cm3, whereas the density of mercury is 13.53 grams per cm3. Therefore mercury is more than 5 time more dense than aluminum! Anything that is less dense than a liquid will float in that liquid. Not only would aluminum float but it float with only 1/5 of it's volume submerged.
In mercury, of course! Bit if you don't like this liquid - in brine, salty water.