Describe what quantity of energy is released to the surroundings in joules, if 2.00 mL of mercury is cooled from the 23.0°C to -38.8°C and then frozen to a solid? The freezing point of mercury is -38.8°C. Where the density of liquid mercury is 13.6 g/cm3 and its specific heat capacity is 0.140 J/g· K and its heat of fusion is 11.4J/g.