[quiz] elemental quiz!

[wispfox]

Mercury (Hg)
Lucky Number 80

Rare, beautiful and hard to hold, you entice those around you. Getting close to you can be a dangerous affair for any who fall for your considerable charms.

In your heyday you were a delightful (if somewhat toxic) plaything for children, and as a measure of both barometric and thermal status you had no peer. But the advent of affordable alcohol thermometers and the odd heavy-metal poisoning incident has seen you fall from grace in many a quadrant.

These are tough times, Mercury. Your best bet is to play to your strengths. Amalgamate where possible. And try to keep a low profile until this storm in a dental surgery blows over - confine all random scooting across surfaces to tv ads and c-class laboratories.

If all else fails, remember Mercury that revenge is a dish best served in cold. And in vapour form.


Famous Mercuries
Cher
Elizabeth Taylor
That chick from The Kiss of the Spiderwoman

Ideal Partner
In the current climate your best bet is to amalgamate Mercury - at this stage you need all the friends and alloys you can get.

[Yes, this amuses me. Why else post it? Got it from http://www.abc.net.au/science/play/quiz/elements/, because dewhitton posted his result]

Comments

[brynndragon.livejournal.com]

Best. Quiz. EVER.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? I'm pleased. ;)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I get Mercury too. (Considering I spent my grad school career researching Mercury-Cadmium Telluride, that's oddly apt.)

[ian-gunn.livejournal.com]

Cool, I've worked with plenty of MCT detectors in my career.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

It is the semiconductor from hell. While it is a very, very useful infrared detector material, it is a stone bitch to experiment with. I've cursed many a sample of it for being brittle, anisotropic, and full of low angle grain boundaries in something advertised as a single crystal.

But don't mind me. I complain about it as I would my own sister. Comes of knowing something too well.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Cool!

See, it's just that Mercury is following you. ;)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Just what I need, to be stalked by Quicksilver...

In a Roman mythological sense, it's an interesting thought. Mercury sometimes was a bit of a trickster who mixed a little bit of fun into his job of delivering messages from the gods.

[3smallishmagi.livejournal.com]

*hee* I'm Helium. I wonder how it knew.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Helium! Makes your voice all squeeky when you inhale it!

[ian-gunn.livejournal.com]

That is an amusing quiz. Reading through the answers was fun.

I have a bottle of mercury I really aught to get rid of. It is an interesting curio to have but too much of a safety issue with kids around now that they are more then capable of getting anywhere in the house, completely unassisted, and will find out of the way places with no warning, especially when you aren't looking.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

That is an amusing quiz. Reading through the answers was fun.

Didn't actually do that. Perhaps I should!

interesting curio to have but too much of a safety issue with kids around

Um, yes! Mercury is cool, but...

[ian-gunn.livejournal.com]

Yes, you should! They were all amusing to read, I especially liked Oxygen.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

I have a mercury toy! *glee!* It's a maze, where you have to get the blobby mercury to the center, but it keeps breaking apart.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/play/quiz/elements/iron.htm