1.   A flower dipped into it becomes as brittle as glass, and liquid mercury becomes a silvery solid hard enough to hammer nails.

2.   But a new generation of mirrors based on silvery liquid mercury promises to drastically reduce the cost of cutting-edge astronomy.

3.   How new mirrors based on liquid mercury can be used astronomy.

4.   Johnson has shot out of the box like liquid mercury.

5.   One day he jiggled a sealed vial of liquid mercury in class and asked his students if they knew what it was.

6.   The crushed rock contains traces of gold, which will bond with liquid mercury dumped into the vat by villagers.

7.   The liquid metal mercury is devilishly useful in many ways and devilishly dangerous once released into the environment.

8.   The new mirrors are little more than rotating dishes containing small quantities of liquid mercury metal.

9.   Because of its heaviness and moldable nature, he says liquid mercury can find its way into cracks and crevices and even under floor boards.

10.   The trouble comes, they say, when liquid mercury vaporizes.