Thermal Properties of Mercury

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

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. 

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... 

Since the property X of different thermometric substances, or the different thermometric properties of a given substance, do not vary in an identical manner with temperature, various thermometers, all of which have been standardized at 0 and 100° C, may indicate different temperatures when in thermal equilibrium with the same body at an intermediate point. A mercury thermometer and a toluene thermometer, for example, which agree at 0 and 100° C, would differ by several degrees in the vicinity of 60° C. Even mercury thermometers in tubes made of various types of glass indicate slightly different temperatures. ... 

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