110 lb. anvil..........

[Justdroppedin]

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[wattso99]

Mercury ......

[Bluegrass]

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Fascinating , I was going to ask how??? lol

[Terryl]

Yes, it's floating in a pool of mercury, mercury is 3 times heaver then iron, (iron = atomic weight of 26, mercury = atomic weight of 80) so the anvil is displacing it's own weight in mercury, thus it floats.

[The Noof]

More on mercury:cut'n'paste from a Canadian government website...

Mercury: chemical properties
Like cadmium, zinc and lead, mercury is a naturally occurring element known as a "heavy metal" and can be toxic to living organisms. The element's atomic mass is 200.59 grams per mole and its specific gravity is 13.5 times that of water. Mercury has a melting point of -38.9oC, a boiling point of 356.7oC, and is the only metal to remain in liquid form at room temperature. Droplets of liquid mercury are shiny and silver-white with a high surface tension, appearing rounded when on flat surfaces. The liquid is highly mobile and droplets combine easily due to low viscosity. The element also combines with other metals such as tin, copper, gold and silver to form mercury alloys known as amalgams. Fortunately, mercury does not form amalgam with iron, which allows for the element to be shipped in standard iron flasks containing 76 pounds, or 34.5 kilograms, of liquid mercury. Mercury has a relatively high vapour pressure and the highest volatility of any metal, vapourizing to become a colourless, odourless gas. The metal is a fair conductor of electricity, but a poor conductor of heat.


Mercury is VERY toxic to humans...that guy will be dead soon if he floats his anvil too often.lol

[Terryl]

It never affected me, I used it all the time at my gold claim, and the creek/river behind me where I lived in the Southern SF bay area, had little pools of it under the big rocks, I lived down stream from the Almaden quick sliver mines, I had several mason jars full of it, made a good bit of change off it, and because it combined real nice with gold, it helped to recover the super fine gold powder out of the black sand left over from the wash down .

Years later they posted signs telling to not to eat any fish caught in the river because of it.

I knew how to handle it, so don't go out and play with it.

[dogdayz]

I wonder if it would also float on oobleck.

[Justdroppedin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFXEqlQvoqw