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It Is Too Good To Be True
Mercury, it is nice for some odd jobs.
You can use it to find temperature,
Air pressure, or as an ancient cure-all.
But it is also a killer, it robs
People of life, of that you can be sure.
Too much of this stuff will be your downfall.
It melts your brain and destroys your liver,
With it in you will shake and quiver.
Lots of it can be found in the big fish,
Or working in the mines, that’s a death-wish.
But don’t be alarmed,
It takes quite a while for you to be harmed.
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By Patrick D'Hoostelaere |
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-A.K.A. Quicksilver
I’m the element that goes by Mercury
But quicksilver is what they called me last century
When it’s not too hot and not too cold
I’m a liquid metal, or so I’m told
I’m all shades of silvery-whites
And I’m sometimes found in lights
I’m from group number 12 and period 6
And I’m no fan of Garth Nix
I can’t conduct heat very well
But my conductivity of electricity is pretty swell
My atomic number is a pretty little 80
And 200.59 isn’t an atomic mass I’d consider shady
I’m the heaviest elemental liquid around
But don’t call me fat or put me down
For I’m also extremely volatile
And just my fumes can defile
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By Jordan Kopp |
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I'm MERCURY
I'm the element mercury
Some however may call me quicksilver
I’m liquid, so I’m watery
My color appears white-silver
Hg is my symbol
200.59 amu is my mass
But don’t call me fat, unless you want to rumble
I’m a strong metal lass
I share my name with the messenger of god
And a planet as well
How odd
But, oh well
I can easily make up for it
For I am a transition metal
Located in the middle
Of that periodic table
80 is my atomic number
Number of protons and number of electrons
But remember
I am an isotope with different numbers of neutrons
I boil at 629.88 Kelvin
Wow that’s hot
I freeze at 234.32 Kelvin
Wow hot that’s not
Indeed I am beautiful
With a shiny surface
Unfortunately I am harmful
With a toxic substance
You use to find me in thermometers
Until discovered
That I cause cancers
Now you’re well informed
So please stay away
Do not touch me
Or forever you may lay
Soul free
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By Chrystyna Gillespie |
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CIRCUITING
John Glenn was the first astronaut to orbit the earth in 4.92 hours in Friendship 7 on 21 February 1997.
-Collier’s Encyclopedia, Vol. 21, p.354.
John Glenn1, while you were doing those circuits
into space at the start of this new age, and I was
getting ready for another launch for circuits into
another race, in this wondrous final stage of history,
this end game, this time of His Name, hardly aware
of history’s pace or any of the massive waste, for I
was young and the seed freshly planted, with spring
rains and summer sun just tasted and winter winds
just around the corner. What a great weight of time
these 35 years. I can feel their days and distant memories
like trees planted forever on hillsides and plains, or water
flowing to the sea through winding silted river beds, sun-lit,
glistening, waves, rolling in, rolling in, always rolling in, like
the clouds ever-present, blowing in from one’s days, circuiting.
Ron Price
21 February 1997
1 John Glenn went into space orbiting the Earth on 21 February 1997, making several circuits of the earth, part of Project Mercury demonstrating man’s proficiency as a space pilot. I, too, was getting ready for a life journey I have called Pioneering Over Three Epochs.
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By RonPrice |
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Mercury
Its found in water, soil, and air,
Its found in almost everywhere.
Small amounts can kill you,
large amounts can more than harm you.
Please don't touch it,
its vary toxic.
Its been used in many things,
herbicides, medicine, preparing felt hats
(please don't le it touch your cats).
Thermometers, thermostats, and barometers
(you can find it in liters).
chlorine gas, and caustic soda
(don't mistake that with cola).
Fluorescent bulbs and dental filings
(you can find these in online biddings).
fungicides, ointments, and antiseptics
(but it might just make you skeptic).
you can also find it in fish
(please don't make fish a Christmas wish).
Its liquid in room temperature.
Its a bit like lead, but you cant be sure.
You can hold it in your hand,
like a big pile of sand.
Its quite heavy though, with a density of 13.6
no, this is measurement is not fixed.
Though it is beautiful,
it is so vary harmful.
You might not find it pleasant,
and that my friends is the end of our lesson.
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By Leticia Lomeli |
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You have a gray
but shiny surface,
serve well and used
for good purpose,
thought to prolong life
for the ancients but now
we use you to disinfect patients
i'd like to have you in my room
but i'll probably die
'kuz of your feums.
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By Libni Gastellum "L-boggie" |
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Alchemists dreamed of what it would lead to
They believed it was the first matter from which all metals were formed
“Gold is in our reach!” they claimed.
Hatters used mercury to put a nice gloss on top hats—
They soon made an appearance in the loony bin;
Who could forget the funny man
from Alice in Wonderland?
Now it’s the fish
Who are coming down sick
With the silvery liquid
That held all the hopes of alchemists.
Poor misunderstood mercury
It’s really a planet you see!
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By Becky M. |
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First Rock from the Sun
Mercury O’ Mercury
When ingested you hurtary,
You cause madness and cancer
We’ll all have a banter
When taken away in a Hearseary
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By BED |
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A silvery metal,
A liquid that's fast,
Sometimes called quicksilver,
Does not stick to glass,
Used in barometers,
Found in large groups,
Mercury's a substance,
That lots of people use.
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By Mike Williams |
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Little drops of mirrors
twist nimbly through the strains
those acrid shining silvers
surely you can't be that bad
just a little splash here and there
the apothecary bottles your beauty
the doctor chooses his duty
oh hydragyrum, how you had us all fooled... |
By Perdita |
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Laugh at 'em all
You got them all to believe
You silly mislead trampled element
You gave them a scare
You know you're not that destructive
You know
People used to rub you into pennies with their bare hands
They have no deformities
You laugh
I laugh
We laugh together at 'em all
They
They came in with big suits
They needed to clean you up
You're not destructive
You're not
Destructive
Laugh
Laugh at 'em all
We do
We will
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By Miranda |
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Mercury Seas
The deep swirling water
A magical colour
Drawing you in closer
Closer and closer to the edge
Dangerously close
Terror fills your naiive face
You didn't see what was wrong
Too late
Now it's all gone
Mercury sea's have taken your soul |
By Jade Hunter |
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Crystals Like Blood
I remember how, long ago, I found
Crystals like blood in a broken stone
I picked up a chunk of broken bed-rock
And turned it this way and that,
It was heavier than one would have expected
>From its size. One face was caked
With brown limestone. But the rest
Was a hard greenish-grey quartz-like stone
Faintly dappled with darker shadows,
And in this quartz ran veins and beads
Of bright magenta.
And I remember how later on I saw
How mercury is extracted from cinnabar
--The double ring of piledrivers
Like the multiple legs of a fantastically symmetrical spider
Rising and falling with monotonous precision,
Marching round in an endless circle
And pounding up and down with a tireless, thunderous force,
While, beyond, another conveyor drew the crumbled ore
From the bottom and raised it to an opening high
In the side of a gigantic grey-white kiln.
So I remember how mercury is got
When I contrast my living memory of you
And your dear body rotting here in the clay
--And feel once again released in me
The bright torrents of felicity, naturalness, and faith
My treadmill memory draws from you yet. |
By Hugh MacDiarmid |
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Flowing silently.
Death in a single drop.
careful.
Don't spill it now.
Hush my children.
Mercury leaking into our brains.
Through each cavity.
Into our psyches.
Through and through.
Mercury. |
By Aidan Knight |
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Mercury
A silvery metal,
A liquid that's fast,
Sometimes called quicksilver,
Does not stick to glass,
Used in barometers,
Found in large groups,
Mercury's a substance,
That lots of people use. |
By Lashelle Wolter |
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Mercury
I broke the thermometer
How pretty!
Chasing silvery bubbles around the sink...
Looking closely--
What fun!
Is that my reflection I see?
How can it be?
That something beautiful
Is something harmful? |
By Beth Sywulka |
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