Originally Posted By: fdcg27
Nice failure to provide an answer.
Mercury doesn't "form", at least not by the action of a river eroding soft rock.
It's an element. Try looking at something called the Periodic Table.
You could Google it.
Mercury along with every other element beyond hydrogen and lithium was formed in the fusion reactor that is a star and to get to an element as heavy as mercury the stars that did so would have had to be a very massive ones.
My post was a test for you and you failed it, so I'll give you a little tutoring.
Mercury, like all of the heavier elements would have settled toward the center of our world when it was still a molten ball.
Volcanism would have brought at least some mercury closer to the surface as it did with even heavier elements like uranium. Volcanism would have also spewed some mercury vapor into the atmosphere long before there were any macrofauna to be injured by it. There were plants, though, and the plants that ultimately became coal seams absorbed some of this atmospheric mercury, so mercury is found in coal.
Coal is a hydrocarbon, so it required living things (plants) that could use solar energy or consume plants that did to form.
Dude, you're hilarious. You greenies have gone off the rails. Musta been the election. Dude in the other thread is now talking about how incandescent don't give off very much heat at all.
My post. Please refute it. No idea what your post was about.
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Mercury formed. Then mercury somehow made it into coal seam. River cut through coal seam. Mercury now somewhere else. Mercury could end up in another coal seam or anywhere else. Clearly a cycle. Any other questions?
Nice failure to provide an answer.
Mercury doesn't "form", at least not by the action of a river eroding soft rock.
It's an element. Try looking at something called the Periodic Table.
You could Google it.
Mercury along with every other element beyond hydrogen and lithium was formed in the fusion reactor that is a star and to get to an element as heavy as mercury the stars that did so would have had to be a very massive ones.
My post was a test for you and you failed it, so I'll give you a little tutoring.
Mercury, like all of the heavier elements would have settled toward the center of our world when it was still a molten ball.
Volcanism would have brought at least some mercury closer to the surface as it did with even heavier elements like uranium. Volcanism would have also spewed some mercury vapor into the atmosphere long before there were any macrofauna to be injured by it. There were plants, though, and the plants that ultimately became coal seams absorbed some of this atmospheric mercury, so mercury is found in coal.
Coal is a hydrocarbon, so it required living things (plants) that could use solar energy or consume plants that did to form.
Dude, you're hilarious. You greenies have gone off the rails. Musta been the election. Dude in the other thread is now talking about how incandescent don't give off very much heat at all.
My post. Please refute it. No idea what your post was about.
Quote:
Mercury formed. Then mercury somehow made it into coal seam. River cut through coal seam. Mercury now somewhere else. Mercury could end up in another coal seam or anywhere else. Clearly a cycle. Any other questions?
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