Imperial or US pounds?
–CoffeeGuy
Well, he could grip it by the handle…
The same way it carries a coconut, of course.
Are you suggesting that mercury has a husk?
wolf_meister, an imperial gallon would weigh about 136 lb. So a US gallon would come in at ~109 lb
Figures used (density Hg=13600 kg/m^3, 1 imp pint=568 ml =>
I Imp gal = ~ 4.5 Litres, 1 US gal = ~ 0.8 Imp gal)
Not at all. It could be wrapped!
Inside a coconut shell.
bughunter’s 5th grade science class (1975) - Teacher passes around grape-sized blob of mercury for kids to handle and “gee-whiz” at. Only precaution taken: teacher inspects kids’ hands for cuts or open sores. 
bughunter’s sophomore chem lab (1984) - bughunter snaps 24" mercury thermometer trying to shake off last drops of HCl (rather than rinse or wipe). A fraction of a cc of mercury spills onto floor and scatters into hundreds of miniscule spheres, which seek out every crevice and corner, naturally. TA evacuates lab and spends 45 minutes alone in lab with respirator and “mercury sucker” (looked like a reverse atomizer) cleaning up quicksilver. :rolleyes:
Beer actually makes me rather dense.
But I suspect mercury would as well…
I wasn’t much for chemistry - could someone explain the glass thing in more detail?
I was taught in school that glass is actually a slow flowing liquid. Is this not the case?
If it IS true, where does its density fit in to what we’ve been talking about in this thread?
Glass is an amorphous solid. It doesn’t flow unless you calculate in geological time, and cathedral windows are thicker at the bottom because God hides a quantum singularity under every church to freak out semi-literate highschool science teachers.