According to legend, a bucket maker working in a local spring spotted a small amount of liquid mercury over 500 years ago.

So liquid mercury is still probably a "better" conductor.

Many of the canisters containing the liquid mercury are now corroding.

The lens floats on a bearing surface of liquid mercury.

Used to burn kerosene and float in a pool of liquid mercury.

This means that it can use a mirror which is a smoothly spinning pan filled with liquid mercury.

They often handle the toxic liquid mercury with their bare hands .

"And it culminates with a waterfall that looks like liquid mercury."

Her eyes were the color of liquid mercury, with more iris and less white than seemed reasonable.

The lens assembly sometimes floated in liquid mercury to reduce friction.