The 80th sashay through the Rainforest!

# The Big Red One (1980), 113 minutes, D: Samuel Fuller
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# Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), 125 minutes, D: Michael Apted
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# Dressed to Kill (1980), 105 minutes, D: Brian De Palma
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# The Elephant Man (1980), 125 minutes, D: David Lynch
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# The Empire Strikes Back (1980), 120 minutes, D: Irvin Kershner
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# Gregory's Girl (1980), 91 minutes, D: Bill Forsyth
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# Heaven's Gate (1980), 219 minutes, D: Michael Cimino
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# The Long Good Friday (1980), 105 minutes, D: John Mackenzie
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# The Long Riders (1980), 99 minutes, D: Walter Hill
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# Melvin and Howard (1980), 93 minutes, D: Jonathan Demme
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# Ordinary People (1980), 124 minutes, D: Robert Redford
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# Raging Bull (1980), 129 minutes, D: Martin Scorsese
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# The Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980), 110 minutes, D: John Sayles
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# The Shining (1980), 144 minutes, D: Stanley Kubrick
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# Stir Crazy (1980), 111 minutes, D: Sidney Poitier
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# The Stunt Man (1980), 129 minutes, D: Richard Rush
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# Tess (1980), 170 minutes, D: Roman Polanski
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# Used Cars (1980), 113 minutes, D: Robert Zemeckis
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The essentials

* Name: mercury
* Symbol: Hg
* Atomic number: 80
* Atomic weight: 200.59 (2)
* CAS Registry ID: 7439-97-6



* Group number: 12
* Group name: (none)
* Period number: 6
* Block: d-block

Here is a brief description of mercury.

* Standard state: liquid at 298 K (the heaviest known elemental liquid)
* Colour: silvery white
* Classification: Metallic
* Availability:


Mercury is the only common metal liquid at ordinary temperatures. Mercury is sometimes called quicksilver. It rarely occurs free in nature and is found mainly in cinnabar ore (HgS) in Spain and Italy. It is a heavy, silvery-white liquid metal. It is a rather poor conductor of heat as compared with other metals but is a fair conductor of electricity. It alloys easily with many metals, such as gold, silver, and tin. These alloys are called amalgams. Its ease in amalgamating with gold is made use of in the recovery of gold from its ores.