{"id":107,"date":"2019-10-09T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T20:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-zoom.jpg"},"modified":"2019-10-10T13:16:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T17:16:16","slug":"v0559_mercury-zoom","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/online-exhibits\/v0559_mercury-zoom\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Mercury (Zoom)"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-107","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-zoom.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-zoom-271x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Here&#039;s a close-up of the tiny drops of liquid native mercury that have seeped out of this rock\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-zoom-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-zoom.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of minerals are made of just 1 element: native copper for example, or native gold.<\/p>\n<p>Native mercury, though, isn&#8217;t a solid at room temperatures and pressures &#8212; it&#8217;s a liquid. This native mercury probably formed as solid crystals under extreme pressure; however, now that they are at the surface of the Earth, they are reverting back to liquid and seeping out of the rock.  Each shiny speck on this rock is a drop of liquid mercury sitting on the surface of the rock as high-surface-tension liquid drops!<\/p>\n<p>Bryn Mawr Vaux Collection, Sample #559.<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Close-up of the small spheres of liquid mercury that are seeping out of this rock.<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"Here's a close-up of the tiny drops of liquid native mercury that have seeped out of this rock","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":598,"height":662,"file":"2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-zoom.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"V0559_Mercury-zoom-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-zoom-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"V0559_Mercury-zoom-271x300.jpg","width":271,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-zoom-271x300.jpg"},"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":{"file":"V0559_Mercury-zoom-100x100.jpg","width":100,"height":100,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-zoom-100x100.jpg"},"full":{"file":"V0559_Mercury-zoom.jpg","width":598,"height":662,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-zoom.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"","camera":"ILCE-7RM3","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1550486718","copyright":"","focal_length":"55","iso":"1600","shutter_speed":"0.00625","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":103,"source_url":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-zoom.jpg","filename":"V0559_Mercury-zoom.jpg","filesize":452363,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"page","id":103,"href":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}