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Old October 26th 06, 04:41 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
Double-A I wonder at what temperature mercury becomes a solid? I
wonder if you had solid mercury sheets with liquid mercury between them
(like a sandwich) how slippery they would be? Water ice with liquid
water on its surface is the most slippery(little friction)
Mercury has a lot of surface tension,and that is the reason I have this
thinking. Bert



Mercury freezes at -37.7°F. I once saw a man drive a rubber nail with
a mercury hammer. He had dipped both into liquid nitrogen first.

Double-A

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Old October 26th 06, 04:55 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message

how slippery they would be? Water ice with liquid
water on its surface is the most slippery(little friction)



That's what the Giness World record book says of ploytetrafluroethyline
(PTFE).

HJ


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Old October 27th 06, 05:42 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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-38.83 degrees C. You have a problem looking up this stuff for
yourself, BEERTbrain?

Saul Levy


On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:44:52 -0400, (G=EMC^2
Glazier) wrote:

Double-A I wonder at what temperature mercury becomes a solid? I
wonder if you had solid mercury sheets with liquid mercury between them
(like a sandwich) how slippery they would be? Water ice with liquid
water on its surface is the most slippery(little friction)
Mercury has a lot of surface tension,and that is the reason I have this
thinking. Bert

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Old October 28th 06, 04:38 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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He just wondered. He didn't ask. Is the urge to discourtesy so strong you
can't bother to read what is written?

"Saul Levy" wrote in message
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-38.83 degrees C. You have a problem looking up this stuff for
yourself, BEERTbrain?

Saul Levy


On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:44:52 -0400, (G=EMC^2
Glazier) wrote:

Double-A I wonder at what temperature mercury becomes a solid? I
wonder if you had solid mercury sheets with liquid mercury between them
(like a sandwich) how slippery they would be? Water ice with liquid
water on its surface is the most slippery(little friction)
Mercury has a lot of surface tension,and that is the reason I have this
thinking. Bert



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Old November 4th 06, 02:46 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Wings wrote:
He just wondered. He didn't ask. Is the urge to discourtesy so strong you
can't bother to read what is written?

"Saul Levy" wrote in message
...
-38.83 degrees C. You have a problem looking up this stuff for
yourself, BEERTbrain?

Saul Levy


On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:44:52 -0400, (G=EMC^2
Glazier) wrote:

Double-A I wonder at what temperature mercury becomes a solid? I
wonder if you had solid mercury sheets with liquid mercury between them
(like a sandwich) how slippery they would be? Water ice with liquid
water on its surface is the most slippery(little friction)
Mercury has a lot of surface tension,and that is the reason I have this
thinking. Bert


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