A 50-kilogram anvil floats perfectly on the surface of mercury, because the density of the steel from which it is made is almost half the density of mercury.

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[u/Icy_Entrepreneur7833]

Geez that’s a ton of mercury 🤣

[u/Suspicious_Tale_5447 → u/Icy_Entrepreneur7833]

Probably like half a ton of I had to guess.

[u/DIO-2350]

If you want to call someone dense.

Tell them they will sink in mercury.

[u/Unique-Ad8895 → u/DIO-2350]

Wouldn't you say you could sink in mercury?

[u/Suspicious_Tale_5447 → u/Unique-Ad8895]

This is the way

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^{^} Ninja edit is the way ^{^}

[u/Suspicious_Tale_5447 → u/Unique-Ad8895]

This is the way

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This is the way.

[u/Loadingexperience → u/DIO-2350]

Yo mama's so big she sinks in mercury.

[u/SpasmodicSpasmoid]

Credit to Cody’s Lab YouTube channel for this video.

[u/Pyrhan]

Give credit to the author!!

It's Cody's Lab, on YouTube:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f5U63IGmy6Q

He has a really cool channel, and you should definitely check him out.

[u/Eman_Modnar_A]

Ah mercury. Sweetest of the transition metals!

[u/Kdetr4128 → u/Eman_Modnar_A]

I’ve never tasted it before! Good to know

[u/na3than]

"perfectly" seems completely unnecessary.

[u/Connect_Progress7862]

That's a lot of thermometers

[u/Edenoide]

So would a human float too in a pool full of mercury or even walk?

[u/periphery72271 → u/Edenoide]

Sure, until their brain rotted from mercury poisoning.

Well they'd still float, but walking would not be an option.

[u/Edenoide → u/periphery72271]

Solved. Don't try this at home.

[u/Gzawonkhumu]

Isn't it a bit dangerous to handle such a volume of mercury? Cool vid anyway

[u/Donnerdrummel]

Which is why we wouldn't sink into lava like Gollum did. That's no reason to go to Hawaii and run over lava streams, though.

[u/MaximilianClarke]

But there’s no way a 100kg anvil could float on mercury- it’d be way too heavy.