The way the Mercury flows back off of the anvil looks like really early computer water physics.

I'm a disabled industrial electrician. I have severe neurological damage after a mercury exposure incident It sent a chill down my spine when you said it was in your boot. It is easily absorbed through the large pores in your feet. Please don't take mercury exposure lightly especially if the exposure is through your feet and hands through the large pores of you body. The effects are devastating to your quality of life.

Thank you for sacrificing 20 years of your lifespan to produce this incredible Mercury video.

Why does mercury have to be so toxic. It looks so fun to play with

I think you should forge an iron ducky for your mercury baths!

I cannot wrap my head around a liquid being so dense even though it flows so easily

In many old light houses, the lantern that rotates at the top sits on a heavy cast iron frame and it actually floats around a circular trough of mercury bath, the same principle as seen here

I used to work in an ironworks and it always amazed me how concrete floated in molten iron

Mercury was once used as bearings for heavy rotating components like lighthouse lamps, beacons, directional antennas, etc. The rotating mechanism will sit on a pan of mercury, which acted as a fluid bearing to prevent the rotating & stationary components from contact.

There's something incredibly surreal about watching an anvil bobbing around on liquid. It's also strange to see a liquid not "Wet out" a cast metal surface. The mercury doesn't even seem to want to stay on it, let alone stick to it. Very odd behaviour to watch.

This is all that the anvil ever dreamed about - finally it got to take a nice bath and just float around for a bit. Should've given it a straw hat and an umbrella drink for the occasion!

A fantasy sword design I saw once was hollow metal with mercury inside. As you swung the blade, the mercury flowed to the end, giving it more weight and a heavier hit.

Just the look of a completely opaque and reflective liquid, like a mirror but with the flow of water, it’s so mesmerising to look at.

"John the liquid is dirty can you clean it?" "Yeah hun let me get the handkerchief"

This was one of the funnest videos I've ever seen! Thank you, Cody!

Very cool and surreal to watch, the fact it's a liquid but behaves so differently to water messes with the mind.

Late 80's, early 90's, when I was a kid, I once saw a program on Dutch television where they had a swimming pool full of mercury. They threw in stuff like a cannonball, a bike, a ship's anchor, etc. I have never been able to find out what program that was so I only had the vivid memories to look back to. It's nice to see this as it's still exactly how I remember!

I think the coolest part of this to me is seeing something in liquid, and coming out dry. It's so satisfying to me

That's incredible, thank you for this. Bro you're a saint for that slowmo at the end!

definitely one the very coolest things this human has seen on YT to date. Thank you. Bravo!

It's one thing to know exactly what is going to happen but to actually see it is amazing!

This is going to go viral. If not the whole video, the anvil covered in Mercury as it floats back to the surface will.

This is incredible! Thank you for sharing this

Mercury is used in astronomy. You spin the container of mercury to such a centrifugal force that it creates a bulging depression. You put the lens and gear out of mercury, and you've created a completely unique, and geometrically absolutely perfect mirror. The glass mirror has a fundamental defect, it reflects light beams in a so-called echo, i.e. multiple reflections of a copy of the beam (because the glass with amalgam below reflects beams from the amalgam, but also internally from the outer layer of glass). The mercury mirror does not suffer from any error. That's what my dad taught me 40 years ago. Thank you.

Man... Mercury is one of those things, not unlike vantablack paint, that just looks like it's not from our reality. It looks like it's not even real, like it's CG almost, or pulled out of an animation. Awesome video.

I am impressed that container held itself together with so much weight in. Also, nice to see Canyon back behind the camera !

Magnificent demo. Thanks.

So cool how it completely absorbs and eliminates nearly all sound from the hammer!

*_Chews indium, touches mercury, drinks cyanide, uses gloves for math, STEPS ON MERCURY_*

It's very satisfying to see how the mercury isn't sticking to the anvil. Great video!

Mercury fly everywhere on a slowmo. Is that dude still alive?

Thanks for the content. Amazing knowledge.

Thank you!!!

They used to float lighthouses fresnel lenses on mercury as a bearing, it’s amazing when you think the whole arrangement weighing over a ton can be turned using a tiny low voltage motor.

Well done! Fascinating!

Mercury looks SO COOL!! Great video!

"Metal working is loud so I'm going to float my anvil in Mercury" "But Cody... Earpl-" "MERCURY! THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS MERCURY"

Thanks Cody, I watched the original and could see it worked but the tub as you say was much to small or the anvil too big. I love how you scrapped the smaller anvil option and went for the BIGGER tub and MOAAR mercury. I had a jar of mercury from a very old and large outside thermometer (over 6-8 feet tall) from an orangery from a large house in Scotland. It was broken and leaked into a bucket below and the owner of the house (a British lord) gave it to me to play with! (1970’d, when health and safety relied on common sense more than written directives)! He did explain safety etc and my mum was a nurse so I was instructed what not to do more than what I could! Floating lead soldiers and toy cars, nails nuts and bolts...brother heated some once and stunned a bird sitting in a nest in the rafters of the coach house it was stored in, it fell out of the nest and took a good 15-30 minutes to recover. Mummy dear chewed his backside for that one! He’s 60 now and still healthy, I don’t know about the bird though! Keep up the great work my friend Peace Charlie UK

RIP, sir. And thank you for the video.

DOING THINGS LIKE THIS IS WHY I ENJOY SCIENCE SO MUCH...AWSOME , THANX FOR THE LEARNING LESSON..!

The mention of standing in mercury cutting off your circulation gave me a thought: what is the effect on different objects being submerged in mercury? For example: -Balloons; also the difference when they are filled with different substances like air vs water. (this made me wonder what a mercury filled balloon would act like) -what sorts of things can be crushed by the pressure of the mercury; a ping pong ball? (to be honest I'm having trouble trying to estimate how strong it is so it would be cool to have a practical visual reference) -Can you pop a grape out of its skin? -How strong is the cutting off of circulation? Is it as strong as an average tourniquet? How long would it take for there to actually be physical damage? -Could you measure blood pressure somehow? Or use it as a cast for a broken bone? -You've done that thing wearing a chainmail shirt, could you do something similar with a flotation vest filled with mercury? -What would be the equivalent depth of water to get the same amount of pressure? -does mercury do anything cool in a vacuum? Would it increase the pressure of the mercury on something such as an empty test tube? So many questions about Mercury, and only one man who can answer them for us. Be the hero we need Cody.

I love the mirror coating the anvil get for an instant, i also love the fact that mercury doesn't stick to stuff as much as galiumn, it's cool to see it roll around the top of the anvil

This is really cool. Mercury has always fascinated me.

The floating hammer was just more surreal, because the anvil acted and looked more like it was made of a block of wood,i wonder how my brain would perceive rocks 🪨 as floating object’s.

no one else is gonna talk about how insane playing with vats full of mercury is??

Whatever floats your anvil, man.

Man, I loved this! we need more wholesome and informative content. So much better than the toxic crud in my recommendations. I just subscribed to improve my mental health! Thank you

I didn’t know it was a possibility to obtain that much mercury. Thank you for the video

This is downright magical! Even when understanding science logically, it never ruins the wonder of the experience. Thank you for sharing this with us!

This looks like an NVIDIA tech demo. :D Nice video!

2:00 it's literally 5am and I heard it and I thought "wow, Iron floats better than wood in water? We should make boats out of it!" And then I remembered we already have them... It made me feel like a 17th century KZfaq guy

I just learned about old school lighthouses that use mercury as a base bearing and the light housing just floats on it to spin.

I love how a metal is sloshing around and sounds like water.

Brilliant. It looks utterly mad, but is exactly the sort of thing I wish that they would demonstrate to schoolkids to get them interested in science. It's so cool, that I reckon that if you were shown this as a kid - you'd never forget it, or why it's happening. Nice one!

5 years old and this is still a banger

It's bewildering to see a liquid that doesn't wet and slightly discolor everything it touches. The closest thing I've seen to that is soldering material when it's hot.

I have seen nearly all of your videos and this is by far the most visually mind blowing thing I have seen you do. I get the whole density thing, but seeing that anvil float is just surreal.

Imagine a planet with an ocean of mercury or some other metal with enough temperature to exist in a liquidated state, it'd be very interesting to see

Is so amazing to see that every time I find weird that mercury doesn't stick to everything like water, I can't get used to it.

This was SO cool to watch!

you should try and contact the slow mo guys and see if they want to do some slow mo stuff with mercury. Seeing a balloon filled with mercury pop in slow mo would be fantastic.

I could watch the oxide skimming all day long, that is freaking awesome to watch it go from dull to shiny

The way mercury glistens and reflects light is so mesmerising.

so is nobody gonna ask where he just casually bought 10 gallons of mercury from

Something I never would have seen in my lifetime unless you had done it. Love the sound that it makes when bobbing out of the Mercury, a little bit like water but there's a clearly different element to it. Kind of like a white noise hissing along with what might sound like water.

Does anyone else asked himself: what the heck this dude made with all this mercury after the video?

Dude...that's crazy to witness. Thanks!

1:47 bro this is so surreal to see. I once dropped an anvil on my foot by accident (The flat part landed on it, not the sharp end, thank god) But it hurt like hell. I knew it weighed a lot, and to see it floating like that?

It's always important to avoid wearing gold jewelry (wedding rings) when working with mercury, they alloy. It actually happened to a friend a long time ago.

"Floating an Anvil" could have been a good title on its own. :)

That’s awesome! I just learned something new today.

Mercury always blows my mind. Cool element.

I once floated a lead fishing weight in mercury and thought that was stunning. This is AMAZING! Thanks Cody!

This is really mind bending. On one hand you know physics and physics say the anvil should float, on the other hand you know an anvil is heavy as hell.

Natural organic Mercury is the very very dangerous substance many are thinking of. , this , elemental , although still not to be played with is not as easily absorbed through the skin. When I was 9 , living in the bay area my young Russian friends parents were scientists and would now and then give us a half gallon milk jug of Mercury to play with outside . LOL It sparked a serious desire for knowledge in that direction in me .( now 66 years old ) Amazing substance!

what a wonderful time for this to show up on my recommended

Excellent demonstration

Man this is one insanely cool video... surreal to see solid iron floating in anything!

Somewhere out there in our galaxy, a planet might be there with oceans of liquid mercury. I can't even fathom that!!

That is awesome overload.

This is one of the coolest things that i've ever seen

O Mercury! Why must you be so toxic? Imagine all the fun we could have had together...

Learn something new every day! 👍🏼

Truly awesome thanks cody Peace ✌️

My immediate thought is not "how" but "why do they sell that much mercury"

I like how reflective the mercury is

This video should go viral... super cool 👍

Any time I see an article, KZfaq video, or what have you that talks about mercury, it's always this video they show.

Brave man - absolutely have no fear to breath in a mercury vapors.

I used to work in a Mercury Cell Chlorine plant. We had hundreds of gallons of liquid Mercury.

Man that’s trippy!

Everything settles according to ‘density’

Just heard philly d read out your comment on his livestream. I agree. I can’t clean without his show

*John Connor:* Wait a minute here. You're telling me that this thing can imitate anything it touches? *The Terminator:* Anything it samples by physical contact. *John Connor:* Get real, like it could disguise itself as a pack of cigarettes? *The Terminator:* No, only an object of equal size. *John Connor:* Then why doen't it become a bomb or a machine gun or something to get me? *The Terminator:* The T-1000 can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals in them. Moving parts. It doesn't work that way, but it can form solid metal shapes. *John Connor:* Like what? *The Terminator:* Like an anvil in a bucket.

This reminds me why I subscribed to your channel a decade ago

I think this is how the pyramid blocks were floated into place. Dig out channels with removable damns and float the stones on mercury. Mercury was found under the pyrimds in massive amounts. Teotihuacan also.

Cody : "Oh Mercury, you're my ..... density. I mean ... my ....destiny"

Amazing to actually see it float :) I am worried for your health though.

Thank you for your sacrifice

Well this is the neatest thing I've seen in a while.