{"id":122,"date":"2019-10-10T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T15:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury.jpg"},"modified":"2019-10-10T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:37:59","slug":"v0559_mercury","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/2019\/10\/09\/online-exhibits-oddities-and-curiosities\/v0559_mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Mercury"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-122","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.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-255x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Native Mercury occurs in a liquid form - these drops of native mercury have seeped out of the rock they formed in and are sitting on the surface of the rock as high-surface-tension liquid drops!\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-768x902.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-872x1024.jpg 872w\" 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>Each shiny speck is a sphere of liquid mercury.<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"Native Mercury occurs in a liquid form - these drops of native mercury have seeped out of the rock they formed in and are sitting on the surface of the rock as high-surface-tension liquid drops!","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":3160,"height":3712,"file":"2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"V0559_Mercury-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-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"V0559_Mercury-255x300.jpg","width":255,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-255x300.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"V0559_Mercury-768x902.jpg","width":768,"height":902,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-768x902.jpg"},"large":{"file":"V0559_Mercury-872x1024.jpg","width":872,"height":1024,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-872x1024.jpg"},"twentyseventeen-featured-image":{"file":"V0559_Mercury-2000x1200.jpg","width":2000,"height":1200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury-2000x1200.jpg"},"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":{"file":"V0559_Mercury-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-100x100.jpg"},"full":{"file":"V0559_Mercury.jpg","width":3160,"height":3712,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury.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":110,"source_url":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/V0559_Mercury.jpg","filename":"V0559_Mercury.jpg","filesize":5852910,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122","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=122"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"post","id":110,"href":"https:\/\/mineralogy.digital.brynmawr.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}