Question

Select the odd one out (1 Point) carbon oxygen iodine mercury

Answer 1

Answer:

indione is old

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is mercury.

Explanation:

Historically known as quicksilver, elemental or metallic mercury is a gleaming, silver-white metal that is liquid at ambient temperature.

Mercury has a relatively low melting point of $-39$°C, it is both a liquid and a metal at normal temperature.

Mercury's (Hg) electrons are too close to the nucleus and move too quickly or erratically to be held in a solid by a strong bond. The fact that mercury is a liquid at ambient temperature can be explained by the idea of weak bonds.

The remaining elements are all nonmetallic. Thus, Mercury is the right response.

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