The Quicksilver


Chemistry I
October 25, 1996

One day an ancient alchemist was sitting at his and noticed a strange
silvery liquid-like metal. He called several of his colleagues over to admire it.
It was passed down through the years, this chemical reaction, that formed this
"Quicksilver" as the alchemists called it. One day a French chemist Antoine
Laurent Lavoisier tested and proclaimed it a metal. And he named it Mercury
(Hg). With strong controversy from scientists around the world, Lavoisier was
never given credit until after his death.. During the late nineteenth century
and early twentieth is when a significant amount of work went into developing a
good use to mercury- thermometers. Before people had been developing
thermometers but they were not as accurate as the ones produced around 1900.
In the later twentieth century people developed a increasing "need" for
pure gold and silver. European and American scientists developed a new advanced
way for this- amalgams.......

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