Mercury
Question asked by: psahu63
Asked on: 05 Sep 2010
This is due to the atomic structure of atomic mercury, that is, the way that the atoms of the mercury are placed geometrically and also the structure of the atom itself.
Mercury holds onto its 6s electrons really really tightly, and so that means that bonding between different mercury atoms is very weak indeed.
This means that very little heat is needed to overcome that bonding and this means that mercury is a liquid at room temperature.
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