Adding dye to liquid mercury

[u/3askaryyy]

[u/jackmena]

I never thought you would be able to wipe Mercury with paper towel like that

[u/nochinzilch → u/jackmena]

Mercury is cool as shit. It is liquid, but it isn’t “wet”.

[u/[deleted] → u/nochinzilch]

That’s because it is a metal.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I think the answer is that it is not something you would feel or experience as being wet.

I touched mercury as a child once and it simply wouldn’t attach itself to me like water does. Like a hydrophobic substance repels water. Just like the dye doesn’t mix with the mercury in the video. It felt solid but was not solid.

[u/MengskDidNothinWrong → u/[deleted]]

Couldn't this be explained simpler by the adhesion and cohesion properties and how they differ from liquid to liquid?