Mercury thermal properties

Included with other thermal properties of mercury see 90 Ed., p. 6-158... 

The discussion of some general principles of temperature measurements and thermometers is summarized in Fig. 3.3. The general method of temperature measurement is easily understood. One must first bring the thermometer, a system of known thermal properties, into intimate contact with the unknown system. For a mercury-in-glass thermometer this usually means complete immersion into the unknown system. Next, equilibration must be awaited. Finally, one must check whether a temperature correction is necessary... 

Chase, S. C., Jr., Miner, E. D., Morrison, D., Munch, G., Neugebauer, G. (1976). Mariner 10 infrared radiometer results temperatures and thermal properties of Mercury. Icarus, 28, 565-78. 

The physical properties of bismuth, summarized ia Table 1, are characterized by a low melting poiat, a high density, and expansion on solidification. Thermochemical and thermodynamic data are summarized ia Table 2. The soHd metal floats on the Hquid metal as ice floating on water. GaUium and antimony are the only other metals that expand on solidification. Bismuth is the most diamagnetic of the metals, and it is a poor electrical conductor. The thermal conductivity of bismuth is lower than that of any other metal except mercury. 

From Mercury—Density and Thermal Expansion at Atmospheric Pressure and Temperatures from 0 to. 350 C, Tables of Standard Handbook Data, Standartov, Moscow, 1978. The density values obtainable from those cited for the specific volume of the saturated liquid in the Thermodynamic Properties subsection show minor differences. No attempt was made to adjust either set. 

While little serious research has been conducted on the properties of TATP, this is not the case for HMTD. As previously mentioned, tests conducted by U.S. Army ordnance illustrated that HMTD was a tremendously powerful initiating explosive, exhibiting between three and four times the strength of mercury fulminate. Unfortunately, HMTD was too thermally unstable and too chemically... 

POLYVINYL ALKYL ETHERS. These products have properties which range from sticky resins to elastic solids. They are obtained by the low-temperature cationic polymerization of alkyl vinyl ethers having the general formula ROCH=CH-. These monomers are prepared by the addition of die selected alkanol to acetylene in the presence of sodium alkoxide or mercury(ll) catalyst, As shown by the following equations, the latter yields an acetal which must be thermally decomposed to produce the alkyl vinyl ether. 

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