Is it possible to to solidify pure mercury at room temperature.some people claim that it is possible especially from india.
That question was talked about on the following forum 19 months ago. Solidifying Mercury at Room Temprature http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/36298
Pure mercury? No. But it's easy to alloy it with other metals and come up with an amalgam that will be solid at room temperatures.
amalgam? . . . . like dissolving gold in mercury . . an old gold recovery process! . . . or dissolving silver in mercury (outdated-toxic?) for dental fillings.
Some people claim they have been anal probed by extraterrestrial aliens.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Mercury cannot solidify at room temperature. There are many ways to use slight of hand or trickery to fool gullible people into believing they have witnessed a miracle.
. . . perhaps the alien anal probes were conducted at ~ -40 degrees C? (approx. freezing point of mercury) tee hee! . . . by the way . . . weren't the old alchemists supposed to turn mercury into gold?
. . .That's even better . . . if I could change the Pb in my ass to Au . . I'd be a VERY wealthy person (but, it seems, that I will soon have to pay more in taxes!)
Who wants solid Hg and why? Seems like an odd thing to request... unless maybe at a Sonic drive-in somewhere in Alpha Centauri where the probing just turned into a date and you're wondering what the hell your alien-friend just ordered.....
Assuming its phases respond in a normal fashion (and I'm sure it does since it has a triple point) then yes, higher pressure could solidify it.
The only thing I could find about Hg under high pressure. Sorry but nothing at room Temp. but the mercury stayed liquid.
The key there is high pressure and high temp. Under just sufficiently high pressure I would think it would behave just like everything else (again it has a triple point) and become a solid.
You wouldn't necessarily need to have anywhere near that much pressure. The added heat there would keep it molten well beyond the normal pressure it would take to solidify it. I wish I could find a phase diagram for it somewhere. If someone wants to buy it this paper would probably answer the question for us: http://www.springerlink.com/content/qr55357gt284741l/
I just asked Trippy to see if he can get a phase diagram for us to end this once and for all. Hopefully he comes through.