Does mercury the planet really has the mercury that was a liquid metal ?

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As like any planets in the solar system there is mercury in planet mercury. That doesnt mean it has huge availability of mercury in there. The planet was named after the Roman messenger god Mercury. It is just because of that the name came.

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