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[[File:Hg_Mercury.jpg|thumb|left| [[Mercury (element)|Mercury]] exhibits more cohesion than adhesion with glass]] ...other [[liquid]]s,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MFQAAAAAYAAJ&dq=mercury+cohesion&pg=PA47 ''Common science'' by Carleton Wolsey Washburne]</ref> and ...

...de]], heated with an auxiliary filament; hydrogen by heating such storage element can be used to replenish cleaned-up gas, and even to adjust the pressure as ...tubes. Noble-gas-filled thyratrons have better electrical parameters than mercury-based ones.<ref name="pasley1">[http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Library/Pas ...

...n'': The prongs at the end of the pivoted arm dip into [[mercury (element)|mercury]] filled recesses. This completes a circuit which energises a coil around ...

...tion they chose was based on the weight of a column of [[mercury (element)|mercury]] of 760&nbsp;mm. But since that weight depends on the local gravity, they ...

[[File:Quecksilberdampfgleichrichter in Betrieb.JPG|thumb|Mercury rectifier on display in the [[Blosenbergturm|Beromünster AM transmitter]] i ...[[mercury (element)|mercury]] and is therefore self-restoring. As a result mercury-arc valves, when used as intended, are far more robust and durable and can ...

...(NO_x), [[sulfur dioxide]] (SO₂), [[Mercury (element)|mercury]] (Hg), [[methane]] (CH₄), [http://www.epa.gov/nitrousoxide/scie ...

...mb|upright=1.4|Electrical switches. Top, left to right: circuit breaker, [[mercury switch]], wafer switch, [[DIP&nbsp;switch]], surface mount switch, [[reed s ...ecialized forms exist, such as the [[toggle switch]], [[rotary switch]], [[mercury switch]], [[push-button]] switch, [[reversing switch]], [[relay]], and [[ci ...

...y the heavy ones with many [[core electrons]], such as [[mercury (element)|mercury]], [[gold]] and [[bismuth]]. The magnetic susceptibility values of various |[[Mercury (element)|Mercury]] ...

...oyed, using [[cerium-144]] in a [[Rankine cycle]] with [[mercury (element)|mercury]] as the [[Coolant|heat transfer fluid]]. Operated successfully for 2500 ho ...rs. The system was designed so that the reactor could be integrated with a mercury Rankine cycle to generate 3.5&nbsp;kW of electricity.{{citation_needed|date ...

...ing coal]] for energy. Burning coal releases harmful substances, including mercury, lead, [[sulfur dioxide]] (SO2), [[nitrogen oxides]] (NOx), and [[carbon di ...rned, various chemicals are released into the air. These chemicals include mercury, lead and other heavy metals, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides, the prim ...

...mercury vapour and conventional steam turbines, the toxicity of the metal mercury was quickly apparent. ...

| [[Mercury (element)|Mercury]]-[[xenon]] arc lamp ...tra-high-performance lamp|Ultra-high-pressure]] (UHP) [[mercury-vapor lamp|mercury-vapor]] arc lamp, free mounted ...

...unts of air at lower and lower pressures. In some applications, a chemical element is used to combine with the air remaining in an enclosure after pumping. Fo ...Torricelli's research as Pascal used similar methods to pull vacuum using mercury. It was until the year 1661, when the mayor of the city of [[Magdeburg]] us ...

...available in a singular form and are not to be confused with [[electrical element]]s, which are conceptual abstractions representing idealized electronic com * [[Mercury arc rectifier]] ...

...relays make and break circuits using a thin, self-renewing film of liquid mercury. For higher-power relays switching many amperes, such as motor circuit cont === Mercury relay === ...

...n it and appears to float higher because of the [[surface tension]] of the mercury.]] ...

...r of curved copper wires which were moved to dip into one or other pair of mercury wells.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fstfirenze.it/collezioni/scientifico_ Instead of mercury, ionic liquids or [[galinstan|other liquid metals]] could be used. ...

...equal. For example, the melting and freezing points of [[mercury (element)|mercury]] is {{Convert|234.32|K|C F|lk=on|abbr=out}}.<ref>[[#Haynes|Haynes]], p. 4. ...name=fn11}}<ref name=rsc>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/6/carbon|title=Carbon|website=rsc.org}}</ref> ...

The electrowetting of [[mercury (element)|mercury]] and other [[liquid]]s on variably charged surfaces was probably first exp ...n a [[p–n junction|reverse bias]] is applied to a conducting droplet (e.g. mercury) which has been placed directly onto a semiconductor surface (e.g. silicon) ...

...djusting screw the lower edge of the disc is made to touch the oil-covered mercury with a pressure small enough not to puncture the film of oil. Its principle In 1899, Bose announced the development of an "''iron-mercury-iron coherer with [[telephone]] detector''" in a paper presented at the [[R ...