What happens when you heat mecury??

Question

I'm curious!!!!

Answer 1

Mercury vaporizes easily (it's already liquid at room temperature), so at a higher temperature it will vaporize even more easily. Mercury vapor is HIGHLY TOXIC, and mercury requires special precautions for handling it at all -- if there's a spill, it has to be cleaned up by a haz mat team. Don't mess with mercury!

Answer 2

It evaporates, (forms vapor).
Don't do this outside a 'fume hood`.
Mercury is a toxic heavy metal.
Like lead, the pure substance is relatively benign.
Mercury vapor however, can lodge in the lungs where it eventually oxidizes, disolves, and gets into the bloodstream.
This can be very bad news for you.

Answer 3

Mercury has a melting point of -37.89 °F (-38.83 °C), so it is a liquid at room temperature. When heated further, it boils and becomes a gas at 674.11 °F (356.73 °C).

Be careful because even at room temperature small amounts of mercury evaporate, similar but slower to water evaporating at room temperature.

Answer 4

When heated, mercury also reacts with oxygen in air to form mercury oxide, which then can be decomposed by further heating to higher temperatures.
xHg+yO2--heat-->HgxOy--heat-->xHg+yO2

Answer 5

it expands