Three magic metals

Producing cold with electricity and a “Quicksilver Heart” that beats – from Popular Science 1936…

You are accustomed to seeing an electric element in a toaster or radiant heater grow red-hot when current passes through it–but did you know that when electricity flows through joints of certain metals, it produces a cooling effect? Have you ever made a drop of murcury behave as if it were alive or prepared a pair of magical alloys that are solids when separate, and a liquid when mixed?

These are a few of the fascinating experiments that you can perform with metals, using three in particular that you may not have employed before in your home laboratory–mercury, antimony, and bismuth.

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