Mercury, also called quicksilver, is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. A heavy, silvery, transition metal, mercury is one of five elements that are ...

Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.

NEW YORK — They exist for only seconds at most in real life, but they’ve gained immortality in chemistry: Two new elements have been added to the periodic table. The elements were recognized by an ...

Mercury is the most beautiful element in the periodic table. And the most reviled. UCL chemist and broadcaster, Professor Andrea Sella, explores the mysterious world of mercury and explains why in his ...

Mercury freezes at roughly minus 38.8 degrees Celsius, a temperature so far below everyday conditions that the silvery ...

There are four new seats at chemistry’s venerable periodic table, added by international judges for work performed by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and in Japan and Russia. With ...