So I'd say a fragile ceramic bottle would be about the last place I'd want to store 10 pounds or more of mercury, which is why this one is going to stay as empty as it arrived. In modern times bulk quantities of mercury are stored in iron cylinders that look at lot like compressed gas cylinders and are completely unbreakable. read more
In its liquid form it looks like silver water but in its solid form it looks like a silver metal. read more