Why is mercury unique among metals?

I used to play with it when I was young . Maybe that's why they now call me Krazy Ray .

Could the answer be silver too

Mercury may look pleasing to the eye and is fun to play with but this substance is very toxic and extremely dangerous. Just leave it alone.

it has more answers than just one

Hmm, mercury used to extract starch from corn, wheat and rice?

I had an unfortunate incident of playing with blobs of mercury from a broken switch. I recalled trying to pick up each blob but was unable to. Don’t remember what happened after. I was a child of about six years or under. I dod have severe dust allergies of all my six siblings. ! ! !