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What If All The Oceans Were Having Liquid Mercury?

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 Have you ever went to a beach and had a look on those beautiful waves approaching towards you? Those would surely be eye soothing on a Sunday after a long week, But What would happen if those oceans would be having liquid mercury instead of our familiar water? What's shiny, liquid, conducts electricity, and also has a planet named after? You probably guessed it right, it's Mercury. This naturally occurring metal has quite a lot of uses, but simultaneously it is very toxic, even tiny amount like few milligrams could potentially be life threatening.  Could earth actually hold this much amount of mercury? would we be able to survive? how could this actually affect our environment? Before you built a image of ocean filled up with mercury, let's learn about some of it properties, Mercury is the only metal which exists into liquid state at room temperature. Mercury doesn't actually break down as basic element and turn into gaseous state as we witness water to show this prope