On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:58:30 +0000, Roger Brugge
wrote:

...
However, one shot showed the presenter using his bare hands to play with mercury
- swishing it around to see it ripple, break up into 'blobs' and reform again
(just as if it was a bowl of water).
...

We used to use a sharp pencil to gouge out globules of mercury from the
cracks in the benches in the chemistry lab to see how big a globule we
could make. This was in the early '50s. Fascinating stuff.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather
Some walks and treks:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/walks