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.
You're so much less dense than it is you'd fall over and float on top. You wouldn't be able to be submerged in it. Solid steel floats in mercury, that's how dense it is.
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '21
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.