Mercury

Mercury
Properties
Type	Element
Made With/By	Ore Processing
Difficulty of Production	Easy-Medium
Exists in Reality	Yes
Atomic Number	80
Warnings
Fire Diamond NFPA 704 2 0 0 Mercury

Mercury
Properties
Type	Liquid
Can Be Placed	No
Temperature	~20°C

Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80 in the periodic table. It is also known as quicksilver. Is a heavy, silvery element, and is the only metal element that is known to be liquid at room temperature and pressure. In the mod, mercury is a quite useful material to progression. Being somewhat hard to get it in large quantities at the early-game but easier at mid-game.

Conversion Note

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Each drop is also directly convertible to 125 mB of mercury as a fluid when placed in a fluid container input slot. Tiny drops of mercury are effectively the nugget equivalent and 9 are needed to make 1 normal drop.

Production

Drops of mercury are more common to get than the fluid. It is acquired in this form in several ways, excluding the already mentioned bottle method, which doesn't really count.

Drops

• Centrifuge
  • 1 redstone ore → 6 redstone, 1 drop of mercury, and 1 gravel
  • 1 redstone crystal → 9 redstone and 3 drops of mercury
  • 1 sulfur crystal → 8 sulfur, 1 iron powder, and 1 drop of mercury
  • 1 starmetal crystal → 3 high-speed steel powder, 3 cobalt powder, 2 astatine powder, and 5 drops of mercury
  • 1 gold crystal → 2 gold powder, 1 drop of mercury, 1 tiny pile of dust
• Cyclotron
  • 1 box of lithium dust bombarding gold powder → 1 drop of mercury
• Ore acidizer
  • 1 block of redstone using 500 mB hydrogen peroxide → 1 drop of mercury
  • 1 cinnabar + 500 mB hydrogen peroxide → 3 drops of mercury
• Solidification machine:
  • 125 mB mercury → 1 drop of mercury
    • (Not technically a production method)
• Electrolysis machine
  • 100 mB nitric acid on 1 starmetal crystal → 4 ingots equivalent of high-speed steel, 4 ingots equivalent of cobalt, 3 astatine powder, and 8 drops of mercury
  • 100 mB nitric acid on 1 gold crystal → 6 ingots equivalent of gold, 2 ingots equivalent of lead, 3 tiny piles of lithium powder, and 2 drops of mercury

It can also be acquired through recycling decayed gold-198 RTG pellets:

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Fluid

There are only a few methods of directly producing mercury as the fluid.

• Coker unit
  • 10,000 mB of fish oil → 1 petroleum coke and 1,000 mB of mercury
  • 1,000 mB of Red Mud → 1 iron ingot and 50 mB of mercury
• Combination furnace
  • 1 cinnabar → 1 sulfur and 100 mB of mercury

Uses

Drops

• Crafting table

8

• Cyclotron

• Assembly machine

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Fluid

• Chemical plant

200mB

200mB

600mB

200mB

1,000mB

• Solidification machine
  • 125mB of mercury → 1 drop of mercury
    • (Not technically a use)
• Industrial mixer
  • 600 mB of kerosene + 200 mB of mercury + 1 nitanium blend → 1,000 mB NITAN© 100 octane super fuel
    • (Identical to the chemical plant recipe)

Trivia

• Real Life Facts
  • Mercury was found in Egyptian tombs that date from 1,500 BC.
  • Cinnabar, the most common natural source of mercury, has been in use since the Neolithic Age.
  • In China and Tibet, mercury use was thought to prolong life, heal fractures, and maintain generally good health, although it is now known that exposure to mercury vapor leads to serious adverse health effects.
  • Alchemists thought of mercury as the "First Matter" from which all metals were formed. They believed that different metals could be produced by varying the quality and quantity of sulfur contained within the mercury.
• Nuclear Tech Mod Facts
  • Each drop of mercury is equivalent to a ingot worth of the material, although the name and appearance suggests it as being a nugget.
    • The texture is also directly referred to as a "nugget".
  • As Mercury is found in cinnabar and redstone, a material of a similar appearance, it suggests to redstone may be a form of cinnabar.

Gallery

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  Bottled

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  Drop

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  Tiny drop