- It's Elemental: Mercury - http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele080.html
- Basic physical and historical information.
- ChemicalElements.com: Mercury - http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/hg.html
- Basic information, atomic structure, and isotopes.
- USGS Minerals Information: Mercury - http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/mercury/
- Statistics and information on the worldwide supply, demand, and flow of the element (PDF format).
- Visual Elements: Mercury - http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/mercury.html
- Image, general and physical information, source, uses, key isotopes, and ionisation energies.
- Why is Mercury liquid at room temperature? - http://www.zyra.org.uk/mercliq.htm
- Explores the question of why Mercury is liquid at room temperature. It also provides some links to other sites regarding this chemistry quandary.
- Vermont Legislative Research Shop - Mercury Information - http://www.uvm.edu/~vlrs/doc/mercury.htm
- Features basic information about Mercury, as well as its harmful effects and legislation concerning Mercury in some American States.
- Mercury in Space - http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy99/phy99189.htm
- Answers the question of what happens to Mercury in space.
- Mercury - http://www.pleasantridge.k12.ca.us/magnolia/elements/mercury/mercury1.html
- A very brief description of Mercury, with a good diagram of its electron orbitals.
- Mercury and Methylmercury by IC-ICPMS - http://www.wcas.com/tech/methylhg.htm
- Analysis of biological, pharmaceutical, and environmental samples for methylmercury and mercury.
- Mercury in the Laboratory - http://www.ilpi.com/safety/mercury.html
- Practical considerations when working with mercury in the laboratory.
- Why Worry About Mercury : Chemical Properties - http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~mercury/src/why2.htm#properties
- Gives some chemical properties of mercury, as well as hazard precautions when dealing with mercury.
- EnvironmentalChemistry.com: Mercury : Nuclides - http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/hg-pg2.html
- Extensive information on the nuclides of mercury, including potential parent nuclides.
- Lenntech: Mercury - http://www.lenntech.com/periodic-chart-elements/hg-en.htm
- Physical data, chemical properties, health and environmental effects.
- Wikipedia: Mercury - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mercury_(element)
- Properties of the element, including its history, applications, and characteristics.
- LANL: Mercury - http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/80.html
- Basic information, history, and uses.
- ChemGlobe: Mercury - http://partisans.spurious.biz/~pkremer/projects/chemglobe/ptoe/_/80.html
- Electronic, thermal, and steric data along with an isotope table.
- WebElements: Mercury - http://www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/elements/mercury/key.html
- Contains extensive information about Mercury, as well as pictures and videos that show its physical appearance and how it reacts with certain chemicals.
- Radiochemistry of Mercury - http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?rc000030.pdf
- Full text of the monograph by Josef Roesmer (Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).
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