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Ask HN: If mercury wasn't toxic would it be incredibly useful?
Mercury switches, mercury hydraulics, mercury vapor lamps...
What else would liquid metal be incredibly useful for?
- ksherlock 7y agoMeasuring temperature and air pressure.
- narogab 7y agoCuring syphilis w/o killing the patient. Probably lots of other bad ailments too. BTW this is a very creative idea (the parent post)! Kudos, kylebenzle!
- chonker 7y agoMercury is incredibly heavy so it could be a useful substance for pumpable mass