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AUGUST 27, 2021

Born in 1791, he received only a barebones education at church school in his village of Newington, Surrey (now part of South London). While reconstructing Ørsted's experiments, Faraday was not entirely convinced that electricity acted like a fluid, running through wires just as water runs through pipes. The next day, he got it right.

Davis 145

Davis Motor Motors Motoring 145

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A hundred years ago, centimeter-scale tilt switches used a conductive blob of mercury rolling along a glass tube to close an electric circuit. The MEMS version, of course, is only a few millimeters in size, and instead of mercury, it uses a suspended block of silicon. Top: David Little/The Mercury News/Getty Images; Bottom: PurpleAir.

Stimulus Package 82

Stimulus Package Stimulus Mercury Power 82

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

In 1894, a German chemist named Herman Frasch plotted a process of tapping a sulfur-containing mineral deposit by pumping it with superheated water. The minerals that contain sulfur often also tend to contain toxic metals like mercury, arsenic, and thallium. The sulfur will melt and bubble up to the surface.

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Renewable Mercury Waste Grant 104