Mercury

Ancient · Materials · 1500 BCE

TL;DR

Mercury - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Mercury - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Vermilion

Required Knowledge

  • Periodic table elements

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Mercury:

Concept of chemical element Mercury thermometer Patio process Mercury-vapor lamp Thermostat Tin-mercury amalgam mirror Superconductors

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Niche Construction Trophic Cascades Path Dependence

Related Inventions

Patio process Mercury-vapor lamp Mercury thermometer Vermilion Thermostat Tin-mercury amalgam mirror Concept of chemical element Superconductors

Tags

Chemistry

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