Sculpting in Solid Mercury, with Liquid Nitrogen (Popsci.com + BB Video)

Boing Boing Video · 396K views · 2009 · 3:38

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Demonstrates how to temporarily solidify mercury using liquid nitrogen to create fragile, sculptural forms.

Linked by 3 independent sites, 3 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including libretexts.org, blog.youtube, maricopa.edu, lumenlearning.com.