{"id":2791,"date":"2026-10-13T05:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2026-10-13T05:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:47:20","slug":"mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury is a dense, silvery metal that is liquid at ambient temperatures and has unique applications and significant toxicity concerns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Mercury<\/strong> | It has high surface tension, forms amalgams with many metals and vaporizes to toxic mercury vapor at elevated temperatures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Mercury<\/strong> | Historically used in thermometers, barometers, gold extraction and industrial processes; many uses have declined due to toxicity and regulation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Mercury<\/strong> | Stable isotopes include Hg 196 to Hg 204; mercury is highly toxic to nervous systems and ecosystems and requires strict environmental and occupational controls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid metal at room temperature used historically in thermometers and industrial processes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5927,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/5927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}