Editing Periodic Table of Dragons (section)

==Mercury 80==
[[File:MercuryDragon.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Mercury Dragon]]
Mercury dragons are deadly creatures indeed, for they have no scales, and move almost as fluidly as creatures of flesh and blood. Heavy and dense, their swinging arms, legs, and tail can do immense damage, and they are expert contortionists, capable of slipping through cracks no larger than a dog or a small child, despite being more than 30 feet from head to tail on average, and standing ten feet high at the shoulder when fully grown.

When threatened, they sweat profusely, exuding rivulets of thick, silvery metal. This substance is highly toxic, and kills almost on contact as it slides into the skin. They can also spit globs of metal more than 50 feet with great accuracy, shooting it from a wide tongue curled into a kind of straw. 

Mercury dragons do not fly, but instead prefer to inhabit pools of water. Lakes inhabited by Mercury dragons for a long time fill up with their secretions, becoming lakes of flowing silver. in their element, the dragons are invisible, and many an adventurer has been fooled into thinking they've found a silver treasure, only to be pulled in by an outstretched claw. 

Mercury dragons are extremely dangerous to many other Metallics, corroding them and dissolving their flesh on contact. Other Metallics become brittle at a Mercury's touch, crumbling to dust in moments. As such, Mercury dragons are considered apex predators among Metallic dragonkind, and most will keep a wide distance away from them. Fire will defeat a Mercury dragon though, melting them away extremely rapidly, and the breath of a Sulfur dragon can also harm them, with time. 

It is fortunate that the species is rare, otherwise they might represent a real threat to all Metallics, and the mortal realms as well.