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Can a mineral be a liquid?
No. A mineral must be solid to be a mineral. For example, liquid water is not a mineral. Frozen water, or ice, is a mineral.
Is Mercury a mineral or metal?
Mercury is a metal. It is one of the only two elements (mercury and bromine) that bear a liquid state at approximate room temperature and is further classified as a 'transition metal'.
A metal that is a liquid at room temperature?
Mercury. is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
What is mercury state at room temperature?
The metallic element Mercury (symbol Hg) is a liquid at standard temperature and pressure, The only other element which is also a liquid under these conditions is the halogen Bromine (symbol Br).
What element is a metal that is in the liquid phase at STP?
mercury and gallium are in form of liquid at room temperature
What mineral is liquid at room temperature and is used in thermometers?
Mercury
This mineral is liquid at room temperature.its best-known use is in thermomters?
Mercury.
Is a mercury minerals or a rock?
Mercury is neither a mineral nor a rock- it is a metal. Just happens to be liquid at room temperature.
Is mercury a mineral?
Minerals containing mercury are solid salts of the metal (e.g. cinnabar, corderoite, livingstonite, vermilion, calomel). The liquid metal must be extracted from these ores by smelting, as it does not exist in the metallic form naturally.
How would someone get the metal from planet Mercury?
The liquid metal "mercury" (also known as quicksilver) is not connected with the planet of the same name. The metal is refined on Earth from the mineral "cinnabar" (mercury sulfide).
Can a mineral be a liquid?
No. A mineral must be solid to be a mineral. For example, liquid water is not a mineral. Frozen water, or ice, is a mineral.
Is the Mercury in a thermometer considered a mineral?
No, because the metal mercury which is a liquid at room temperature, does not occur naturally in the "native" state. It is usually found as Cinnabar (Mercuric oxide). It is an element.
What is the name of the liquid in a thermometer?
The red liquid in a liquid-in-glass thermometer is mineral spirits or ethanol alcohol mixed with red dye. A grey or silver liquid inside the thermometer is mercury. Mercury thermometers are not used anymore due to the dangers associated with mercury.
This mineral is liquid at room temperature its best known use is in thermometers?
waterANS2:By definition, no substance fits that definition because a mineral is naturally occurring and solid at room temperature. What the question seems to be fishing for is elemental mercury. Elemental mercury does not occur naturally.
Is there anything with a MOHs scale less than 1?
Mercury does not meet the definition of a mineral in that it is not a solid, but it is recognized as a mineral by the International Mineralogy Association. It's hardness is listed as zero because it is a liquid.
What is the phases of Mercury?
Mercury is a liquid. It can be found in thermometers.
Is Mercury a solid liquid gas?
mercury is a liquid
