{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"What would happen if you could hold a metal that never solidifies?","description":"What would happen if you could hold in the palm of your hand a metal that does not solidify? You would feel a damp cold escaping between your fingers without wetting your skin, a metal that flows like water and defies what touch expects from something metallic. \r\n \r\nThat metal exists and is called mercury. It is the only metal that is liquid at normal room temperature. Its surface rolls over itself because no bond fixes it in place, and it is so dense that a piece of iron floats in it without sinking. Entire generations lived with that shiny liquid at home, in glass thermometers, without knowing what it was. Mercury does not melt because heat is applied to it, but because its internal structure never allows it to solidify under ordinary conditions. \r\n \r\nIf mercury is a metal and metals form strong bonds, then something inside it prevents that bonding, and that demands an explanation.\r\n\r\nThis episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.","author_name":"Creators Obomedia"}