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Liquid Elements Photo Gallery

See What the Elements Look Like as Liquids

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Do you know what the pure elements look like in liquid form? Some elements, like mercury, you may have seen as a liquid because that is its usual state. Other liquid elements may be less familiar to you.

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Liquid oxygen is blue.Oxygen LiquidElemental sulfur melts from a yellow solid into a blood-red liquid. It burns with a blue flame.Sulfur LiquidThis is a photo of liquid nitrogen being poured from a dewar.Liquid NitrogenThis is a picture of the element bromine in a vial encased in a block of acrylic.Bromine Liquid
This is an ampule containing pure cesium or caesium metal, which is a liquid at elevated temperatureCesium LiquidThis is a sample of pure liquid rubidium metal.Rubidium LiquidThis is a sample of the element chlorine in its liquid form.Chlorine LiquidCopper is a reddish metal.Copper Liquid
The element mercury is a dense silvery liquid at room temperature.Liquid MercuryThis is a picture of pure gallium metal crystallizing from melted liquid gallium.Liquid Gallium

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