Mercury

Also known as Sol I, Hermes, Sol b, Sol 1, Planet Mercury, ☿

first planet from the Solar System and smallest among all, tellurian and with extreme temperatures

OverviewAI-generated

Mercury is a planet that orbits the Sun. It is named after the Roman god Mercury, who is identified with Hermes. The planet has an atmosphere and possesses a magnetic field. Its radius is 2439.7, and its mass is 330. The object has an orbital eccentricity of 0.20563593 and a flattening of 0.

Mercury completes an orbit in 87.969 days, with a synodic period of 115.88. Its semi-major axis is 57909176, and its periapsis is 46001009. The orbital inclination is 7.00497902, with an argument of periapsis of 29.124 and a longitude of ascending node of 48.33076593. The albedo is 0.068. The Unicode character for Mercury is ☿. It is described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

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Research

63,150 papers

The toxicology of mercury and its chemical compounds.ReviewCritical reviews in toxicology · 2006Clarkson TW, Magos LDOI: 10.1080/10408440600845619
Mercury toxicity and treatment: a review of the literature.ReviewJournal of environmental and public health · 2012Bernhoft RADOI: 10.1155/2012/460508
Mercury toxicity.Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology · 2012Rocha JB, Aschner M, Dórea JG et al.DOI: 10.1155/2012/831890
Toxicity of mercury: Molecular evidence.ReviewChemosphere · 2020Yang L, Zhang Y, Wang F et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125586
Toxicity of mercury.ReviewJournal of human hypertension · 1999Langford N, Ferner RDOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1000896
Mercury poisoning.ReviewCurrent problems in pediatrics · 2000Ozuah PODOI: 10.1067/mps.2000.104054
Mercury and mercurials.ReviewBritish medical bulletin · 1975Magos LDOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a071293
Mercury toxicity reduced by selenium.ReviewNutrition reviews · 1973DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb05145.x

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Encyclopedic overview

Apparent magnitude −2.48 to +7.25 Absolute magnitude (H) −0.4 Angular diameter 4.5–13″ Atmosphere Surface pressure trace (≲ 0.5 nPa) Composition by volume atomic oxygen

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