Mercury, also called quicksilver, is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. A heavy, silvery, transition metal, mercury is one of five elements that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Three recently discovered chemical elements will be named after Moscow, Japan and Tennessee under a recommendation by an international scientific group. A fourth name honors a ...

Mercury is almost uniformly distributed in all compact bone elements sampled in one individual. In the trabecular tissue Hg occurs in much higher concentrations than in compact bone.

Most mercury that enters waterways originates from industrial pollution and other human activities, but it can also come from natural sources. Once in the water, microbes transform the element into ...

Letter Published: 03 May 1924 The “Missing Element” between Cadmium and Mercury W. M. HICKS Nature 113, 642–643 (1924) Cite this article ...