Why is mercury a liquid at room temperature?
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Mercury is greedy and doesn’t want to share its electrons, but sharing is caring in chemistry, so no one wants to be friends with Mercury, least of all another Mercury. All the mercuries stay away from each other, causing the social group to fall apart and melt.
Sometimes oxygen comes along and gets in an abusive relationship with mercury, stealing mercuries electrons while playing all buddy-buddy to mercurie’s face, but at least Mercury has some semblance of a social circle.
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